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 …

Integration of full divertor detachment with improved core confinement for tokamak fusion plasmas

L Wang, HQ Wang, S Ding, AM Garofalo… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Divertor detachment offers a promising solution to the challenge of plasma-wall interactions
for steady-state operation of fusion reactors. Here, we demonstrate the excellent …

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 developing reactors that can exploit …

Integrated modeling of CFETR hybrid scenario plasmas

J Chen, VS Chan, X Jian, X Zhang, Q Ren, G Li… - Nuclear …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Demonstration of DEMO relevant fusion power (Pfus) level and tritium self-sufficiency are
two important goals of the China fusion engineering testing reactor (CFETR). In this work the …

Stability optimization of energetic particle driven modes in nuclear fusion devices: the FAR3d gyro-fluid code

J Varela, D Spong, L Garcia, Y Ghai, J Ortiz… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The development of reduced models provide efficient methods that can be used to perform
short term experimental data analysis or narrow down the parametric range of more …

Simultaneous control of safety factor profile and normalized beta for JT-60SA using reinforcement learning

T Wakatsuki, M Yoshida, E Narita, T Suzuki… - Nuclear …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Plasma with an internal transport barrier (ITB) will be developed in JT-60SA as an attractive
operation appropriate for a steady-state fusion reactor. To achieve the ITB plasma while …

An analysis of controlled detachment by seeding various impurity species in high performance scenarios on DIII-D and EAST

D Eldon, HQ Wang, L Wang, J Barr, S Ding… - Nuclear Materials and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Experiments at DIII-D and EAST have demonstrated simultaneous high confinement,
divertor detachment, and active control of detachment level, all of which are required for …

[HTML][HTML] Flexible, integrated modeling of tokamak stability, transport, equilibrium, and pedestal physics

BC Lyons, J McClenaghan, T Slendebroek… - Physics of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The STEP (Stability, Transport, Equilibrium, and Pedestal) integrated-modeling tool has
been developed in OMFIT to predict stable, tokamak equilibria self-consistently with core …

Progress in extending high poloidal beta scenarios on DIII-D towards a steady-state fusion reactor and impact of energetic particles

J Huang, AM Garofalo, JP Qian, XZ Gong… - Nuclear …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
To prepare for steady-state operation of future fusion reactors (eg the International
Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor and China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor …

Observation of fully detached divertor integrated with improved core confinement for tokamak fusion plasmas

HQ Wang, L Wang, S Ding, AM Garofalo, XZ Gong… - Physics of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Integration of divertor detachment with a high-performance (β N∼ 3, β p> 2, H 98∼ 1.5) core
plasma has been demonstrated in DIII-D high-β p (poloidal beta) plasmas associated with a …