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Zap Energy hits 37-million-degree electron temperatures in compact fusion device
Zap Energy announced April 23 that it has reached 1-3 keV plasma electron temperatures—roughly the equivalent of 11 to 37 million degrees Celsius—using its sheared-flow-stabilized Z-pinch approach to fusion. Reaching temperatures above that of the sun’s core (which is 10 million degrees Celsius temperature) is just one hurdle required before any fusion confinement concept can realistically pursue net gain and fusion energy.
C. C. Hegna, J. D. Callen, A. J. Cole
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 59 | Number 3 | April 2011 | Pages 623-624
Appendix A | Fourth ITER International Summer School (IISS2010) / Extended Abstracts | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A11705
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Understanding the physics that controls rotation properties of tokamaks is a crucial issue for successful ITER operation. Toroidal plasma flow and flow shear directly impact the control of turbulent transport, edge plasma physics, MHD stability, and the interaction of the MHD modes with external magnetic structures (resistive walls and resonant magnetic perturbations). Additionally, a large variety of phenomena are known to affect the properties of toroidal flows. These include 3-D magnetic fields (both resonant and nonresonant contributions), momentum sources, turbulent fluctuations, and magnetic field transients. [first paragraph from extended abstract]
