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What’s the most difficult question you’ve been asked as a maintenance instructor?
Blye Widmar
"Where are the prints?!"
This was the final question in an onslaught of verbal feedback, comments, and critiques I received from my students back in 2019. I had two years of instructor experience and was teaching a class that had been meticulously rehearsed in preparation for an accreditation visit. I knew the training material well and transferred that knowledge effectively enough for all the students to pass the class. As we wrapped up, I asked the students how they felt about my first big system-level class, and they did not hold back.
“Why was the exam from memory when we don’t work from memory in the plant?” “Why didn’t we refer to the vendor documents?” “Why didn’t we practice more on the mock-up?” And so on.
Aleksei Meshcheryakov, Irina Grishina
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 81 | Number 8 | November 2025 | Pages 858-868
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2025.2483060
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In many tokamaks, the effect of improving plasma energy confinement after injecting impurities, and accordingly, increasing radiation loss is observed. In this paper, we experimentally study whether this effect is observed at the L-2M stellarator. We ascertained that for the L-2M stellarator, in the range of operating parameters, the energy lifetime does not depend on the radiation loss power. We propose a mechanism for explaining the improvement in energy confinement observed in tokamaks with limiters after injecting light impurities. The safety factor gradient at the plasma edge increases after impurities are injected, as does the shear of poloidal rotation velocity. As a consequence, turbulent flows are suppressed, resulting in an improvement in plasma energy confinement. In stellarators, this mechanism does not work since the angle of rotational transformation is rigidly set by the coils of the facility magnetic system. The plasma confinement in the L-2M is not deteriorated after increasing radiation loss power due to the action of the plasma self-organization processes.