Recent advances in EAST physics experiments in support of steady-state operation for ITER and CFETR

BN Wan, Y Liang, XZ Gong, N Xiang, GS Xu… - Nuclear …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Since the last IAEA Fusion Energy Conference in 2016, the EAST physics experiments have
been developed further in support of high-performance steady-state operation for ITER and …

Internal transport barriers in tokamak plasmas

RC Wolf - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2002 - iopscience.iop.org
Internal transport barriers in tokamak plasmas are explored in order to improve confinement
and stability beyond the reference scenario, used for the ITER extrapolation, and to achieve …

Plasma confinement and transport

EJ Doyle, WA Houlberg, Y Kamada… - Nuclear …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
The understanding and predictive capability of transport physics and plasma confinement is
reviewed from the perspective of achieving reactor-scale burning plasmas in the ITER …

Key ITER plasma edge and plasma–material interaction issues

G Federici, P Andrew, P Barabaschi, J Brooks… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2003 - Elsevier
Some of the remaining crucial plasma edge physics and plasma–material interaction issues
of the ITER tokamak are discussed in this paper, using either modelling or projections of …

Assessment of erosion of the ITER divertor targets during type I ELMs

G Federici, A Loarte, G Strohmayer - Plasma physics and …, 2003 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper presents the results of a preliminary assessment conducted to estimate the
thermal response and erosion lifetime of the ITER divertor targets clad either with carbon …

A high-density and high-confinement tokamak plasma regime for fusion energy

S Ding, AM Garofalo, HQ Wang, DB Weisberg, ZY Li… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The tokamak approach, utilizing a toroidal magnetic field configuration to confine a hot
plasma, is one of the most promising designs for developing reactors that can exploit …

Overview and summary

M Shimada, DJ Campbell, V Mukhovatov… - Nuclear …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
The'Progress in the ITER Physics Basis'(PIPB) document is an update of the'ITER Physics
Basis'(IPB), which was published in 1999 [1]. The IPB provided methodologies for projecting …

The physics of large and small edge localized modes

W Suttrop - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2000 - iopscience.iop.org
The operational boundaries for the occurrence of various types of edge localized mode
(ELM) instability in high-confinement-mode (H-mode) fusion plasmas are reviewed. The …

Type II ELMy H modes on ASDEX Upgrade with good confinement at high density

J Stober, M Maraschek, GD Conway, O Gruber… - Nuclear …, 2001 - iopscience.iop.org
H modes with good confinement and small ELMs with the characteristics of type II or grassy
ELMs have been observed on ASDEX Upgrade. Such an ELM behaviour is essential to …

Divertor impurity seeding with a new feedback control scheme for maintaining good core confinement in grassy-ELM H-mode regime with tungsten monoblock divertor …

GS Xu, QP Yuan, KD Li, L Wang, JC Xu… - Nuclear …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Small perturbations and strong impurity exhaust capability associated with the small grassy
ELMs render the grassy-ELM regime a suitable candidate for achieving steady-state H …