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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.
Oliver Schmitz
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 61 | Number 2 | February 2012 | Pages 402-410
Diagnostics | Proceedings of the Tenth Carolus Magnus Summer School on Plasma and Fusion Energy Physics | doi.org/10.13182/FST12-A13527
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Diagnosing the radial region around the last closed flux surface out to the plasma facing components is an important task as this interface determines the plasma wall interaction. In this lecture, spectroscopic techniques for measuring the radial profiles of electron density ne(r), electron and ion temperature Te(r) and Ti(r), plasma rotation and the radial electric field as well as the hydrogenic and impurity source distribution in front of the plasma facing components and the heat and particle fluxes to these components are introduced based on the example of the TEXTOR tokamak.