Magnetic-confinement fusion

J Ongena, R Koch, R Wolf, H Zohm - Nature Physics, 2016 - nature.com
Our modern society requires environmentally friendly solutions for energy production.
Energy can be released not only from the fission of heavy nuclei but also from the fusion of …

Results from deuterium-tritium tokamak confinement experiments

RJ Hawryluk - Reviews of modern physics, 1998 - APS
Recent scientific and technical progress in magnetic fusion experiments has resulted in the
achievement of plasma parameters (density and temperature) which made possible the …

Development of the indirect‐drive approach to inertial confinement fusion and the target physics basis for ignition and gain

J Lindl - Physics of plasmas, 1995 - pubs.aip.org
Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) is an approach to fusion that relies on the inertia of the fuel
mass to provide confinement. To achieve conditions under which inertial confinement is …

Lithium, a path to make fusion energy affordable

A De Castro, C Moynihan, S Stemmley, M Szott… - Physics of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
In this tutorial article, we review the technological, physics, and economic basis for a
magnetic fusion device utilizing a flowing liquid lithium divertor (molten metal velocity in the …

Alpha-particle-driven toroidal Alfvén eigenmodes in the tokamak fusion test reactor

R Nazikian, GY Fu, SH Batha, MG Bell, RE Bell… - Physical review …, 1997 - APS
Alpha-particle-driven toroidal Alfvén eigenmodes (TAEs) have been observed for the first
time in deuterium-tritium (DT) plasmas on the tokamak fusion test reactor (TFTR). These …

Cryogenic thermonuclear fuel implosions on the National Ignition Facility

SH Glenzer, DA Callahan, AJ MacKinnon, JL Kline… - Physics of …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
The first inertial confinement fusion implosion experiments with equimolar deuterium-tritium
thermonuclear fuel have been performed on the National Ignition Facility. These …

Fusion plasma experiments on TFTR: A 20 year retrospective

RJ Hawryluk, S Batha, W Blanchard, M Beer… - Physics of …, 1998 - pubs.aip.org
The Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR)(RJ Hawryluk, to be published in Rev. Mod. Phys.)
experiments on high-temperature plasmas, that culminated in the study of deuterium–tritium …

High beta and enhanced confinement in a second stable core VH-mode advanced tokamak

AD Turnbull, TS Taylor, YR Lin-Liu, HS John - Physical review letters, 1995 - APS
A new, enhanced performance tokamak regime, the second stable core VH-mode (SSC-
VH), with a self-consistent VH-mode transport barrier and a large second stable core …

Review of deuterium–tritium results from the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor

KM McGuire, H Adler, P Alling, C Ancher… - Physics of …, 1995 - pubs.aip.org
After many years of fusion research, the conditions needed for a D–T fusion reactor have
been approached on the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR)[Fusion Technol. 21, 1324 …

Simulations of alpha parameters in a TFTR DT supershot with high fusion power

RV Budny, MG Bell, AC Janos, DL Jassby… - Nuclear …, 1995 - iopscience.iop.org
A TFTR supershot with a plasma current of 2.5 MA, a neutral beam heating power of 33.7
MW and a peak DT fusion power of 7.5 MW is studied using the TRANSP plasma analysis …