Achievement of ion temperatures in excess of 100 million degrees Kelvin in the compact high-field spherical tokamak ST40

Nuclear Fushion

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S.A.M. McNamara¹  O. Asunta¹  J. Bland¹  P.F. Buxton¹  C. Colgan¹  A. Dnestrovskii¹  M. Gemmell¹  M. Gryaznevich¹  D. Hoffman¹  F. Janky¹  J.B. Lister¹  H.F. Lowe¹  R.S. Mirfayzi¹  G. Naylor¹  V. Nemytov¹  J. Njau¹  T. Pyragius¹  A. Rengle¹  M. Romanelli¹  C. Romero¹  M. Sertoli¹  V. Shevchenko¹  J. Sinha¹  A. Sladkomedova¹  S. Sridhar¹  Y. Takase¹  P. Thomas¹  J. Varje¹  B. Vincent¹  H.V. Willett¹  J. Wood¹  D. Zakhar¹  D.J. Battaglia²  S.M. Kaye²  L.F. Delgado-Aparicio²  R. Maingi²  D. Mueller²  M. Podesta²  E. Delabie³  B. Lomanowski³  O. Marchuk⁴  the ST40 Team¹ 

[1] Tokamak Energy Ltd;Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton;Oak Ridge National Laboratory;Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institut für Energie- und Klimaforschung—Plasmaphysik

关键词: ST40;    high-field;    spherical tokamak;    compact;   

DOI  :  10.1088/1741-4326/acbec8

来源: Institute of Physics Publishing Ltd.

【 摘 要 】

Ion temperatures of over 100 million degrees Kelvin (8.6 keV) have been produced in the ST40 compact high-field spherical tokamak (ST). Ion temperatures in excess of 5 keV have not previously been reached in any ST and have only been obtained in much larger devices with substantially more plasma heating power. The corresponding fusion triple product is calculated to be {n_{i0}}{T_{i0}}{au _E} approx 6 pm 2 imes {10^{18}}{{ext{m}}^{ - 3}}{ext{keVs}} . These results demonstrate for the first time that ion temperatures relevant for commercial magnetic confinement fusion can be obtained in a compact high-field ST and bode well for fusion power plants based on the high-field ST.

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