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Fusion energy: Progress, partnerships, and the path to deployment
Over the past decade, fusion energy has moved decisively from scientific aspiration toward a credible pathway to a new energy technology. Thanks to long-term federal support, we have significantly advanced our fundamental understanding of plasma physics—the behavior of the superheated gases at the heart of fusion devices. This knowledge will enable the creation and control of fusion fuel under conditions required for future power plants. Our progress is exemplified by breakthroughs at the National Ignition Facility and the Joint European Torus.
A.V. Zvonkov
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 1 | January 2001 | Pages 328-330
Poster Presentations | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963472
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The standard GAMMA 10 configuration is characterized by high ellipticity of the anchor fans, where the thickness of plasma is 2.5cm only. Thin anchor fans are probable places of fast radial transport. Possible way to check this assumption is to diminish the ellipticity. This task is complicated by several requirements to magnetic configuration: symmetrization of magnetic field, MHD stability, ensuring of proper conditions for ICRH and ECRH.
In the paper the calculations of GAMMA 10 magnetic field and MHD stability are presented. As a result of calculations the range of currents suitable for stable symmetrized configurations with low ellipticity was determined.
