Citation
Jm. Adams et al., ICRF RESULTS IN D-T PLASMAS IN JET AND TFTR AND IMPLICATIONS FOR ITER, Plasma physics and controlled fusion, 40, 1998, pp. 87-103
Categorie Soggetti
Phsycs, Fluid & Plasmas","Physics, Nuclear
Abstract
Recent experiments in D-T plasmas on the JET and TFTR tokamaks have ev
aluated a wide range of ITER relevant ion cyclotron heating scenarios.
Absorption of fast waves at the second-harmonic tritium resonance has
provided bulk ion heating in TFTR supershots and electron heating in
JET H-mode discharges. In JET, deuterium minority heating has generate
d 1.7 MW of fusion power with 6 MW of radio frequency power giving a r
ecord steady-state Q-value of 0.22. Strong bulk ion heating has been a
chieved with He-3 minority heating with central ion temperatures up to
13 keV being produced in H-modes with a density of 3.6 x 10(19) m(-3)
Hydrogen, deuterium and He-3 minority heating methods have produced p
lasmas with normalized confinement times greater than or equal to that
required by ITER for ignition. These H-modes are characterized by sma
ll-amplitude, high-frequency ELMs, each of which transports less than
1.5% of the plasma energy content to the limiters. The heavy minority
scheme of tritium in a deuterium plasma has been demonstrated both as
a heating scheme and a generator of suprathermal neutrons. On TFTR mod
e conversion to an ion Bernstein wave has achieved central bulk ion he
ating in supershots with target ion temperatures greater than 20 keV.