Our modern society requires environmentally friendly solutions for energy production.
Energy can be released not only from the fission of heavy nuclei but also from the fusion of …

In addition to the operational limits imposed by MHD stability on plasma current and
pressure, an independent limit on plasma density is observed in confined toroidal plasmas …

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 …

The present status of zonal flow experiments is reviewed with the historical process to attain
the concept of zonal flows, which provides a new framework for understanding turbulence …

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 …

In 1998 the four ITER parties decided to investigate a smaller and cheaper (50% cost)
machine design with reduced technical objective but without jeopardizing the programmatic …

Since the last IAEA Fusion Energy Conference in 2018, significant progress of the
experimental program of HL-2A has been achieved on developing advanced plasma …

An overview of the physics of intrinsic torque is presented, with special emphasis on the
phenomenology of intrinsic toroidal rotation in tokamaks, its theoretical understanding, and …

Significant reductions in the size and cost of a fusion power plant core can be realized if
simultaneous improvements in the energy replacement time,, and the plasma pressure or …

During the last decade, significant progress has been made in the field of pellet injection
with (1) the identification of the drift of the deposited material in the inhomogeneous …