Plasma-material interactions in current tokamaks and their implications for next step fusion reactors

G Federici, CH Skinner, JN Brooks, JP Coad… - Nuclear …, 2001 - iopscience.iop.org
The major increase in discharge duration and plasma energy in a next step DT fusion
reactor will give rise to important plasma-material effects that will critically influence its …

Divertor physics research on Alcator C-Mod

B Lipschultz, B LaBombard, JL Terry… - Fusion science and …, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
Many important contributions to the understanding of divertor physics are presented in this
review of Alcator C-Mod research. The three regimes of parallel transport, sheath limited …

Power and particle control

A Loarte, B Lipschultz, AS Kukushkin… - Nuclear …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
Progress, since the ITER Physics Basis publication (ITER Physics Basis Editors et al 1999
Nucl. Fusion 39 2137–2664), in understanding the processes that will determine the …

Plasma detachment in divertor tokamaks

AW Leonard - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Observations of divertor plasma detachment in tokamaks are reviewed. Plasma detachment
is characterized in terms of transport and dissipation of power, momentum and particle flux …

Physics of ultimate detachment of a tokamak divertor plasma

SI Krasheninnikov, AS Kukushkin - Journal of Plasma Physics, 2017 - cambridge.org
The basic physics of the processes playing the most important role in divertor plasma
detachment is reviewed. The models used in the two-dimensional edge plasma transport …

Divertor plasma detachment

SI Krasheninnikov, AS Kukushkin, AA Pshenov - Physics of Plasmas, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Regime with the plasma detached from the divertor targets (detached divertor regime) is a
natural continuation of the high recycling conditions to higher density and stronger impurity …

High heat flux capabilities of the Magnum-PSI linear plasma device

G De Temmerman, MA Van Den Berg… - Fusion Engineering and …, 2013 - Elsevier
Magnum-PSI is an advanced linear plasma device uniquely capable of producing plasma
conditions similar to those expected in the divertor of ITER both steady-state and transients …

[图书][B] On the edge of magnetic fusion devices

S Krasheninnikov, A Smolyakov, A Kukushkin - 2020 - Springer
Nuclear reactions provide a virtually inexhaustible source of energy, which can be
harnessed in the process of either fusion of light elements (eg, hydrogen isotopes) or …

The role of plasma–atom and molecule interactions on power & particle balance during detachment on the MAST Upgrade Super-X divertor

K Verhaegh, B Lipschultz, JR Harrison… - Nuclear …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper shows first quantitative analysis of the detachment processes in the MAST
Upgrade Super-X divertor (SXD). We identify an unprecedented impact of plasma-molecular …

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 …