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Proving DRACO will deliver
The United States is now closer than it has been in over five decades to launching the first nuclear thermal rocket into space, thanks to DRACO—the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Orbit.
Nermin A. Uckan
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 3 | May 1992 | Pages 1444-1448
International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A29924
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The ranges of confinement-relevant (dimensional and dimensionless) plasma parameters for major tokamaks (JET, JT-60U, TFTR, DIII-D, …) that are expected to contribute to the ITER Physics R&D in the 1990s have been analyzed to characterize confinement and plasma performance in ITER-like designs. We find that the largest tokamaks (JET, JT-60U) should be able to demonstrate H-mode operation (with ELMs, as in ITER) with nτETi values within an order of magnitude of those required in ITER and have relevant dimensionless plasma parameters (ρ/a, ν*, etc.) within a factor 2 of those in ITER. Extrapolations from dimensionally similar discharges in DIII-D and JET show high-Q/ignition operation in ITER-like plasmas at plasma currents (∼16 MA) well below the nominal (22-MA) design value. Another critical issue for achieving ignition-level plasma performance is the anomalous alpha particle effects, mainly the “toroidal Alfvén eigenmode” (TAE mode). The D-T experiments in TFTR and JET (and simulations using fast beam ions) should realize alpha particle (fast-ion) parameters roughly similar, in relation to TAE mode thresholds, to those projected for ITER. We judge that present-day tokamaks will provide a sufficient database (by the mid-1990s) on H-mode confinement (with ELMs) and possible anomalous alpha particle effects at relevant dimensionless parameters that are expected to be adequate for ITER purposes.