Overview of the SPARC tokamak

AJ Creely, MJ Greenwald, SB Ballinger… - Journal of Plasma …, 2020 - cambridge.org
The SPARC tokamak is a critical next step towards commercial fusion energy. SPARC is
designed as a high-field () relevant to fusion power plants. SPARC's place in the path to …

Disruption prediction for future tokamaks using parameter-based transfer learning

W Zheng, F Xue, Z Chen, D Chen, B Guo… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Tokamaks are the most promising way for nuclear fusion reactors. Disruption in tokamaks is
a violent event that terminates a confined plasma and causes unacceptable damage to the …

Enhanced performance in fusion plasmas through turbulence suppression by megaelectronvolt ions

S Mazzi, J Garcia, D Zarzoso, YO Kazakov, J Ongena… - Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Alpha particles with energies on the order of megaelectronvolts will be the main source of
plasma heating in future magnetic confinement fusion reactors. Instead of heating fuel ions …

[HTML][HTML] Recent progress of plasma exhaust concepts and divertor designs for tokamak DEMO reactors

N Asakura, K Hoshino, S Kakudate, F Subba… - Nuclear Materials and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The power exhaust concept and an appropriate divertor design are common critical issues
for tokamak DEMO design activities which have been carried out in Europe, Japan, China …

Fusion energy conversion in magnetically confined plasma reactors

F Dobran - Progress in Nuclear Energy, 2012 - Elsevier
One of the most pressing problems of this century is to solve the energy supply problem and
in particular the development of fusion energy technology. Fusion powers the Sun and stars …

Re-examining the role of nuclear fusion in a renewables-based energy mix

TEG Nicholas, TP Davis, F Federici, J Leland, BS Patel… - Energy Policy, 2021 - Elsevier
Fusion energy is often regarded as a long-term solution to the world's energy needs.
However, even after solving the critical research challenges, engineering and materials …

High-resolution charge exchange measurements at ASDEX Upgrade

E Viezzer, T Pütterich, R Dux, RM McDermott… - Review of scientific …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
The charge exchange recombination spectroscopy (CXRS) diagnostics at ASDEX Upgrade
(AUG) have been upgraded and extended to provide high-resolution measurements of …

[HTML][HTML] The high field side high density region in SOLPS-modeling of nitrogen-seeded H-modes in ASDEX Upgrade

F Reimold, M Wischmeier, S Potzel, L Guimarais… - Nuclear Materials and …, 2017 - Elsevier
The understanding of divertor physics and the evolution of divertor detachment is crucial for
develo** the capability to model power exhaust in current experiments and reliably predict …

ADX: a high field, high power density, advanced divertor and RF tokamak

B LaBombard, E Marmar, J Irby, JL Terry… - Nuclear …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center and collaborators are proposing a high-
performance Advanced Divertor and RF tokamak eXperiment (ADX)—a tokamak specifically …

High-resolution heat flux width measurements at reactor-level magnetic fields and observation of a unified width scaling across confinement regimes in the Alcator C …

D Brunner, B LaBombard, AQ Kuang, JL Terry - Nuclear Fusion, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
New data from Alcator C-Mod have extended the range of heat flux measurements and
scalings to poloidal magnetic fields above ITER-level. Knowledge of how the scrape-off …