ANOMALOUS LOSSES OF DEUTERIUM DEUTERIUM FUSION PRODUCTS IN THE TOKAMAK FUSION TEST REACTOR

In the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) [International Conference on Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research, Wurzburg, Pape r No. A-2-2 (International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, 1993)] there have been at least three types of anomalous loss of alpha-like deuteri um-deuterium (D-D) fusion products: (1) a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD)-in duced loss of D-D fusion products correlated with Mirnov and fishbone- type oscillations and sawtooth crashes, (2) a slow ''delayed'' loss of partially thermalized D-D fusion products occurring without large MHD activity, and (3) ion cyclotron resonance heating (ICRH)-induced loss of D-D fusion products ions observed during direct electron heating e xperiments, and possibly also during He-3 minority heating. In this pa per each of these will be reviewed, concentrating on those due to MHD activity, which are the largest of these anomalous losses. The experim ental results are compared with numerical models of various fusion pro duct transport mechanisms.