Tokamaks
- 1 September 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Nuclear Fusion
- Vol. 30 (9) , 1675-1694
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0029-5515/30/9/003
Abstract
Since the tokamak concept gained recognition in 1968, steady progress has been made towards its development into a viable fusion core for a thermonuclear reactor. The paper summarizes the present status of tokamak research, concentrating on physics aspects relating to the operational domain in current, density and pressure; plasma activity and relaxation phenomena; the principles, strengths and weaknesses of plasma heating techniques; global and local plasma confinement and the various regimes of enhanced confinement identified so far; the potential and limitations of fuelling, impurity control and exhaust systems; and, finally, the performance of non-inductive current drive schemes.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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