This review is devoted to tokamak plasmas with a cross sectional shape featuring negative
triangularity, which appear to hold great promise as a candidate reactor configuration owing …

The pursuit of steady-state economic production of thermonuclear fusion energy has led to
research on the stabilization of the external kink and the resistive wall mode. Advances in …

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 …

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 …

Significant progress has been made in the area of advanced modes of operation that are
candidates for achieving steady state conditions in a fusion reactor. The corresponding …

The paper discusses edge stability, beta limits and power handling issues for negative
triangularity tokamaks. The edge magnetohydrodynamic stability is the most crucial item for …

Fusion–fission hybrid facility based on superconducting tokamak DEMO-FNS is developed
in Russia for integrated commissioning of steady-state and nuclear fusion technologies at …

Tokamaks have demonstrated excellent plasma confinement capability because of their
symmetry but has an intrinsic drawback because of their pulsed inductive operation. Efforts …

The EPED model has been designed to predict the pedestal height and width from a
minimal set of parameters and using the stability of the pedestal region for global MHD …

This paper reviews current understanding of key physics elements that control the H-mode
pedestal structure, which exists at the boundary of magnetically confined plasmas. The …