Published 1987 | Version v1
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High aspect ratio D-/sup 3/He tokamak reactors

  • 1. Fusion Technology Institute, Dept. of Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, 1500 Johnson Drive, Madison, WI (USA)

Description

Because of the reduced reactivity of D/He-3 relative to D-T, higher beta operation is necessary with D/He-3. One possibility for high beta is to operate in the second stability regime with a high plasma aspect ratio. The authors investigated some of the physics aspects of second stability, high aspect ratio operation with D/He-3. Ignition may be feasible, depending on the energy confinement scaling, with much reduced plasma current and magnetic field at the TF magnet, in comparison with the corresponding values for low aspect ratio tokamaks operating in the first stability regime

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Publishing Information

Publisher
IEEE Service Center.
Imprint Place
Piscataway, NJ (USA)
Imprint Title
Proceedings of the 12th symposium on fusion engineering
Journal Page Range
p. 1354-1357.

Conference

Title
12. symposium on fusion engineering.
Dates
12-16 Oct 1987.
Place
Monterey, CA (USA).