Progress of divertor heat and particle flux control in EAST for advanced steady-state operation in the last 10 years

L Wang, GS Xu, JS Hu, KD Li, QP Yuan, JB Liu… - Journal of fusion …, 2021 - Springer
Active control of the excessively high heat and particle fluxes on the divertor target plates is
of fundamental importance to the steady state operation of tokamaks, especially for fusion …

Long-pulse H-mode operation with stored-energy monitoring for detachment feedback control with a new lower tungsten divertor in EAST

YQ Tao, GS Xu, K Wu, QQ Yang, L Wang… - Nuclear …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
One of the key challenges for future fusion research is to mitigate the high steady-state heat
load on the divertor target plates, and divertor detachment offers a promising solution. The …

Active control of divertor heat and particle fluxes in EAST towards advanced steady state operations

L Wang, HY Guo, J Li, BN Wan, XZ Gong… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2015 - Elsevier
Significant progress has been made in EAST towards advanced steady state operations by
active control of divertor heat and particle fluxes. Many innovative techniques have been …

The first implementation of active detachment feedback control in EAST PCS

QP Yuan, K Wu, L Wang, JC Xu, KD Li, JB Liu… - Fusion Engineering and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract EAST achieved 101.2 seconds H-mode discharge with total power injection up to
3MW in 2017. Consequently to the enhanced auxiliary heating power, the active divertor …

Divertor plasma behaviors with neon seeding at different locations on EAST with ITER-like divertor

LY Meng, L Wang, HQ Wang, GZ Deng, H Si… - Nuclear …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
For the problem of excessively high divertor heat flux, active impurity seeding is an effective
method to radiate the plasma energy reaching the divertor and thus achieve the divertor …

Advances in plasma–wall interaction control for H-mode operation over 100 s with ITER-like tungsten divertor on EAST

L Wang, HY Guo, F Ding, YW Yu, QP Yuan… - Nuclear …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
A total power injection up to 0.3 GJ has been achieved in EAST long pulse H-mode
operation of 101.2 s with an ITER-like water-cooled tungsten (W) mono-block divertor, which …

The achievement of the T e, div feedback control by CD4 seeding on EAST

K Wu, Q Yuan, G Xu, L Wang, D Eldon… - Plasma Physics and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
A multi-function divertor feedback control system has been built on Experimental Advanced
Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) to treat the divertor heat load issue. With the real-time …

Divertor detachment operation in helium plasmas with ITER-like tungsten divertor in EAST

LIU Jianbin, M Lingyi, GUO Houyang… - Plasma Science and …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Detachment in helium (He) discharges has been achieved in the EAST superconducting
tokamak equipped with an ITER-like tungsten divertor. This paper presents the experimental …

The upgrade of EAST divertor

Z Zhou, D Yao, L Cao - Journal of Fusion Energy, 2015 - Springer
The scientific and the engineering missions of EAST are to explore the reactor related
regimes with long pulse lengths and high plasma core confinement and solutions for power …

Real-time feedback control of the impurity emission front in tokamak divertor plasmas

T Ravensbergen, M van Berkel, A Perek… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
In magnetic confinement thermonuclear fusion the exhaust of heat and particles from the
core remains a major challenge. Heat and particles leaving the core are transported via …