A brief history of negative triangularity tokamak plasmas

A Marinoni, O Sauter, S Coda - Reviews of Modern Plasma Physics, 2021 - Springer
This review is devoted to tokamak plasmas with a cross sectional shape featuring negative
triangularity, which appear to hold great promise as a candidate reactor configuration owing …

A high-density and high-confinement tokamak plasma regime for fusion energy

S Ding, AM Garofalo, HQ Wang, DB Weisberg, ZY Li… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The tokamak approach, utilizing a toroidal magnetic field configuration to confine a hot
plasma, is one of the most promising designs for develo** reactors that can exploit …

Progress in the development and understanding of a high poloidal-beta tokamak operating scenario for an attractive fusion pilot plant

S Ding, AM Garofalo - Reviews of Modern Plasma Physics, 2022 - Springer
The high poloidal-beta (β P) regime was first proposed as a high bootstrap current scenario
for a steady-state fusion pilot plant (FPP) in the 1990s (Kikuchi in Nucl Fusion 30: 265 …

The impact of disruptions on the economics of a tokamak power plant

AD Maris, A Wang, C Rea, R Granetz… - Fusion Science and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Tokamaks are often considered to be a leading candidate for near-term, cost-effective fusion
energy, but these devices are susceptible to sudden loss of confinement events called …

High fusion performance in Super H-mode experiments on Alcator C-Mod and DIII-D

PB Snyder, JW Hughes, TH Osborne… - Nuclear …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The'Super H-Mode'regime is predicted to enable pedestal height and fusion
performance substantially higher than standard H-Mode operation. This regime exists due to …

Radiative pulsed L-mode operation in ARC-class reactors

SJ Frank, CJ Perks, AO Nelson, T Qian, S **… - Nuclear …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
A new ARC-class, highly-radiative, pulsed, L-mode, burning plasma scenario is developed
and evaluated as a candidate for future tokamak reactors. Pulsed inductive operation …

Full-radius integrated modelling of ASDEX Upgrade L-modes including impurity transport and radiation

D Fajardo, C Angioni, R Dux, E Fable, U Plank… - Nuclear …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
An integrated framework that demonstrates multi-species, multi-channel modelling
capabilities for the prediction of impurity density profiles and their feedback on the main …

FERMI: fusion energy reactor models integrator

V Badalassi, A Sircar, JM Solberg, JW Bae… - Fusion Science and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract The Fusion Energy Reactor Models Integrator (FERMI) is an integrated simulation
environment under development for the coupled simulation of the plasma, first wall, and …

Fusion pilot plant performance and the role of a sustained high power density tokamak

JE Menard, BA Grierson, T Brown, C Rana… - Nuclear …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent US fusion development strategy reports all recommend that the US should pursue
innovative science and technology to enable construction of a fusion pilot plant (FPP) that …

[HTML][HTML] The value of fusion energy to a decarbonized United States electric grid

JA Schwartz, W Ricks, E Kolemen, JD Jenkins - Joule, 2023 - cell.com
Fusion could be a part of future decarbonized electricity systems, but it will need to compete
with other technologies. In particular, pulsed tokamak plants have a unique operational …