ENHANCED PERFORMANCE OF DEUTERIUM-TRITIUM-FUELED SUPERSHOTS USING EXTENSIVE LITHIUM CONDITIONING IN THE TOKAMAK-FUSION-TEST-REACTOR

Authors
MANSFIELD DK STRACHAN JD BELL MG SCOTT SD BUDNY R MARMAR ES SNIPES JA TERRY JL BATHA S BELL RE BITTER M BUSH CE CHANG Z DARROW DS ERNST D FREDRICKSON E GREK B HERRMANN HW HILL KW JANOS A JASSBY DL JOBES FC JOHNSON DW JOHNSON LC LEVINTON FW MIKKELSEN DR MUELLER D OWENS DK PARK H RAMSEY AT ROQUEMORE AL SKINNER CH STEVENSON T STRATTON BC SYNAKOWSKI E TAYLOR G VONHALLE A VONGOELER S WONG KL ZWEBEN SJ
Citation
Dk. Mansfield et al., ENHANCED PERFORMANCE OF DEUTERIUM-TRITIUM-FUELED SUPERSHOTS USING EXTENSIVE LITHIUM CONDITIONING IN THE TOKAMAK-FUSION-TEST-REACTOR, Physics of plasmas, 2(11), 1995, pp. 4252-4256
Citations number
20
Categorie Soggetti
Phsycs, Fluid & Plasmas
Journal title
Physics of plasmas → ACNP
ISSN journal
1070664X
Volume
2
Issue
11
Year of publication
1995
Pages
4252 - 4256
Database
ISI
SICI code
1070-664X(1995)2:11<4252:EPODSU>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
In the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) [K. M. McGuire et al., Phys. Plasmas 2, 2176 (1995)] a substantial improvement in fusion performan ce has been realized by combining the enhanced confinement due to trit ium fueling with the enhanced confinement due to extensive conditionin g of the limiter with lithium. This combination has resulted in not on ly significantly higher global energy confinement times than have prev iously been obtained in high current supershots, but also in the highe st central ratio of thermonuclear fusion output power to input power o bserved to date. (C) 1995 American Institute of Physics.