A Midsize Tokamak As Fast Track To Burning Plasmas

[摘要] This paper presents a midsize tokamak as a fast track to the investigation of burning plasmas. It is shown that it could reach large values of energy gain (???10) with only a modest improvement in confinement over the scaling that was used for designing the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER). This could be achieved by operating in a low plasma recycling regime that experiments indicate can lead to improved plasma confinement. The possibility of reaching the necessary conditions of low recycling using a more efficient magnetic divertor than those of present tokamaks is discussed.

[发布日期] 2010-07-14

[学科分类] 原子、分子光学和等离子物理

[关键词] CONFINEMENT;DIVERTORS;EXPERIMENTAL REACTORS;PLASMA;PLASMA CONFINEMENT;RECYCLING Divertors;Fusion Reactors;Tokamaks