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Fast ion orbits in spherical tokamaks [PDF]

Physics of Plasmas, 1996
In a spherical tokamak, the 1/R variation of the toroidal field is extreme, and for a given value of the safety factor a relatively low average toroidal field can be used, together with large plasma current and large plasma minor radius and elongation. The poloidal and toroidal fields are then of similar size.
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Mechanical model for a full fusion tokamak enabled by supercomputing

Nuclear Fusion
Determining stress and strain in a component of a fusion power plant involves defining boundary conditions for the mechanical equilibrium equations, which implies the availability of a full reactor model for defining those conditions.
W.M.E. Ellis, L. Reali, A. Davis, H.M. Brooks, I. Katramados, A.J. Thornton, R.J. Akers, S.L. Dudarev   +7 more
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First Results of the Implementation of the Doppler Backscattering Diagnostic for the Investigation of the Transition to H-Mode in the Spherical Tokamak Globus-M2. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel), 2023
Ponomarenko A, Yashin A, Kurskiev G, Minaev V, Petrov A, Petrov Y, Sakharov N, Zhiltsov N.   +7 more
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Progress of the Plasma Centerpost for the PROTO-SPHERA Spherical Tokamak

Energies, 2016
Plasma properties can be useful in a wide spectrum of applications. Experimental projects on controlled nuclear fusion are the most challenging of these applications and, at the same time, the best way to approach plasma science.
Alessandro Lampasi, Giuseppe Maffia, Franco Alladio, Luca Boncagni, Federica Causa, Edmondo Giovannozzi, Luigi Andrea Grosso, Alessandro Mancuso, Paolo Micozzi, Valerio Piergotti, Giuliano Rocchi, Alessandro Sibio, Benedetto Tilia, Vincenzo Zanza   +13 more
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Heating and current drive in STEP: why neutral beam injection is not desirable

Nuclear Fusion
Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP) is the UK’s prototype fusion power plant programme aiming to demonstrate net electrical output from a spherical tokamak. The plasma scenarios require a completely non-inductive current drive for the flat-top
Thomas Wilson, Mark Henderson, Hana El-Haroun, Anurag Saigiridhari, Emmi Tholerus   +4 more
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Development of the Langmuir probe under q-distribution for NCST

AIP Advances
The Langmuir probe is one of the important diagnostic methods for measuring the edge plasma parameters of tokamak. A quadruple Langmuir probe (QLP) system was designed and built on the NanChang Spherical tokamak (NCST).
Donghua Xiao, Xiaochang Chen, Sanqiu Liu, Hui Chen, Yuzhen Xiong   +4 more
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Breakdown of adiabatic invariance in spherical tokamaks [PDF]

Physics of Plasmas, 2001
Due to the weak but strongly varying magnetic field, fast ions in spherical tokamaks are susceptible to the breakdown of adiabatic invariance. Beam ions in present-day spherical tokamaks are typically marginally adiabatic or super-adiabatic. Super-adiabatic ions have energies in the intermediate range where the longitudinal invariant is still ...
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Microstability physics as illuminated in the spherical tokamak

Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2005
Spherical tokamaks (STs) have attractive features for fusion, and there is considerable interest in understanding their transport properties which depend on the underlying microinstabilities. STs are capable of operation with low magnetic fields and exhibit large inhomogeneity in the toroidal magnetic field.
Roach, C, Applegate, D, Connor, J, Cowley, S, Dorland, W, Hastie, R, Joiner, N, Saarelma, S, Schekochihin, A, Akers, R, Brickley, C, Field, A, Valovic, M, Team, MAST   +13 more
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Overview of recent results from the ST40 compact high-field spherical tokamak

Nuclear Fusion
ST40 is a compact, high-field ( $B_{\mathrm{T0}}\unicode{x2A7D} 2.1\,\,\,\textrm{T}$ ) spherical tokamak (ST) with a mission to expand the physics and technology basis for the ST route to commercial fusion.
S.A.M. McNamara, A. Alieva, M.S. Anastopoulos Tzanis, O. Asunta, J. Bland, H. Bohlin, P.F. Buxton, C. Colgan, A. Dnestrovskii, E. du Toit, M. Fontana, M. Gemmell, M.P. Gryaznevich, J. Hakosalo, M.R. Hardman, D. Harryman, D. Hoffman, M. Iliasova, S. Janhunen, F. Janky, J.B. Lister, H.F. Lowe, E. Maartensson, C. Marsden, S.Y. Medvedev, S.R. Mirfayzi, M. Moscheni, G. Naylor, V. Nemytov, J. Njau, T. O’Gorman, D. Osin, T. Pyragius, A. Rengle, M. Romanelli, C. Romero, M. Sertoli, V. Shevchenko, J. Sinha, A. Sladkomedova, S. Sridhar, J. Stirling, Y. Takase, P.R. Thomas, J. Varje, E. Vekshina, B. Vincent, H.V. Willett, J. Wood, E. Wooldridge, D. Zakhar, X. Zhang, D. Battaglia, N. Bertelli, P.J. Bonofiglo, L.F. Delgado-Aparicio, V.N. Duarte, N.N. Gorelenkov, M. de Haas, S.M. Kaye, R. Maingi, D. Mueller, M. Ono, M. Podesta, Y. Ren, S. Trieu, E. Delabie, T.K. Gray, B. Lomanowski, E.A. Unterberg, O. Marchuk, the ST40 Team   +71 more
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The impact of E × B shear on microtearing based transport in spherical tokamaks

Nuclear Fusion
Electromagnetic microtearing modes (MTMs) have been observed in many different spherical tokamak (ST) regimes. Understanding how these and other electromagnetic modes nonlinearly saturate is likely critical in understanding the confinement of a high β ST.
B.S. Patel, M.R. Hardman, D. Kennedy, M. Giacomin, D. Dickinson, C.M. Roach   +5 more
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