Progress in the area of MHD stability and disruptions, since the publication of the 1999 ITER
Physics Basis document (1999 Nucl. Fusion 39 2137–2664), is reviewed. Recent theoretical …

We report on the first demonstration of dissipation of fully avalanched post-disruption
runaway electron (RE) beams by shattered pellet injection in the DIII-D tokamak. Variation of …

Recent progress in understanding of disruptions and in developing methods to avoid
disruption damage is presented. Nearly complete mitigation of conducted heat loads has …

New results from the generation of runaways and the loss of runaway electrons in an
ergodized magnetic field are presented. For the generation process, a clear difference …

Many disruptions in the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR)(Meade and the TFTR Group
1991 Proc. Int. Conf. on Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion (Washington, DC …

The spatial distribution of runaway electron (RE) strikes to the wall during argon pellet-
initiated rapid shutdown of diverted and limited plasma shapes in DIII-D is studied using a …

To present, the development of disruption mitigation methods has been progressed towards
operation of ITER, which is aimed at minimizing heat and electromagnetic loads within …

We describe results from recent experiments studying interaction of solid polystyrene pellets
with a runaway electron current channel generated after cryogenic argon pellet rapid …

Energy production is a continuing problem in the modern world, and nuclear fusion in
tokamak reactors may be a viable solution. One remaining problem for tokamaks is the …

There is a pressing need to enhance the robustness of the vacuum vessel and in-vessel
components of ITER against the various deleterious effects of disruptions, namely (i) heat …