Physics Regimes in the Fusion Ignition Research Experiment (FIRE)

Autor: S.C.Jardin, K. M. Young, B. E. Nelson, C.C.Baker, Nermin A. Uckan, R.J. Thome, P. H. Rutherford, P. J. Heitzenroeder, M. A. Ulrickson, J. A. Schmidt, J. C. Wesley, J. H. Schultz, C. E. Kessel, D. M. Meade
Rok vydání: 2001
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Popis: Burning plasma science is recognized widely as the next frontier in fusion research. The Fusion Ignition Research Experiment (FIRE) is a design study of a next-step burning plasma experiment with the goal of developing a concept for an experimental facility to explore and understand the strong nonlinear coupling among confinement, magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) self-heating, stability, edge physics, and wave-particle interactions that is fundamental to fusion plasma behavior. This will require plasmas dominated by alpha heating (Q greater than or equal to 5) that are sustained for a duration comparable to characteristic plasma timescales (greater than or equal to 10) tau(subscript ''E''), approximately 4 tau(subscript ''He''), approximately 2 tau(subscript ''skin''). The work reported here has been undertaken with the objective of finding the minimum size (cost) device to achieve these physics goals.
Databáze: OpenAIRE