Design study of National Centralized Tokamak facility for the demonstration of steady state high-β plasma operation

Autor: Mizuki Sakamoto, Hiroshi Azechi, Kunihiko Okano, Y. Kudo, Takaaki Fujita, Kei Masaki, Katsumi Ida, Hiroshi Tamai, Y. Miura, Hirotaka Kubo, Ryuichi Shimada, Yuichi Takase, Takahiro Suzuki, Kenji Okuno, S.-I. Itoh, A. Nishimura, Hidetoshi Hashizume, S. Sakurai, Naoaki Yoshida, K. Tsuchiya, Kiyotaka Hamamatsu, Nobuhiko Hayashi, K. Kurihara, Mitsuru Kikuchi, Konosuke Sato, S. Ishida, Akihiko Kimura, Makoto Matsukawa, H. Takahashi, Makoto Ichimura, K. Yatsu, S. Tanaka, Yutaka Kamada, Hisato Kawashima, Masato Akiba, N. Miya, M. Kuriyama, K. Kizu, Katsumasa Nakamura, M. Takechi, N. Hosogane, Yoshihiko Uesugi, Y. M. Miura, G. Kurita, H. Ninomiya, A. Shimizu, Akio Sagara, A. Morioka, Hiroaki Tsutsui, Tsuyoshi Imai, Hiroshi Horiike, M. Matsuoka
Rok vydání: 2005
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Zdroj: Nuclear Fusion. 45:1676-1683
ISSN: 1741-4326
0029-5515
Popis: Design studies are shown on the National Centralized Tokamak facility, formerly called JT-60SC. The machine design is carried out to investigate the capability for flexibility in aspect ratio and shape controllability for the demonstration of the high-β steady state operation with nation-wide collaboration, in parallel with ITER towards DEMO. Two designs are proposed and assessed with respect to the physics requirements such as confinement, stability, current drive, divertor and energetic particle confinement. The operation range in the aspect ratio and the plasma shape is widely enhanced consistent with sufficient divertor pumping. Evaluations of the plasma performance towards the determination of the machine design are presented.
Databáze: OpenAIRE