Published 1993 | Version v1
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H- and L-mode confinement in JT-60U

  • 1. Japan Atomic Energy Research Inst., Naka, Ibaraki (Japan). Naka Fusion Research Establishment

Description

H-mode production and confinement have been studied in JT-60U, for a wide range of plasma parameters (Bt = 2-4 T, Ip = 1-4 MA, PNBI = 5-25 MW). A confinement enhancement factor over the ITER power law of up to 2.2 has been obtained in 4.2 T H-modes with wall conditioning and discharge optimization. A maximum plasma stored energy of 7.7 MJ, a fusion triple product of ni(0)Ti(0)τE of 2.5 x 1020 keV·s·m-3, a maximum ion temperature of 32 keV and a maximum electron temperature of 9 keV were obtained in the hot ion H-mode regime. Progress has also been made in understanding the plasma confinement in the L-mode and ohmically heated plasmas, and factors such as isotope dependence, current profile effect, high aspect ratio confinement, thermal confinement scaling and ion transport anomaly have been investigated. (author). 18 refs, 13 figs

Part of:
Plasma physics and controlled nuclear fusion research 1992

Additional details

Publishing Information

Publisher
IAEA.
Imprint Place
Vienna (Austria)
ISBN
92-0-101093-1
Imprint Title
Plasma physics and controlled nuclear fusion research 1992. v. 1
Imprint Pagination
791 p.
Series
Proceedings series.
Journal Page Range
p. 189-202.
ISSN
0074-1884

Conference

Title
14. international conference on plasma physics and controlled nuclear fusion research.
Dates
30 Sep - 7 Oct 1992.
Place
Wuerzburg (Germany).

Optional Information

Collaborations
JT-60.
Secondary number(s)
IAEA-CN--56/A-3-3.