High-temperature plasmas in a tokamak fusion test reactor
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- 9 March 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 58 (10), 1004-1007
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.58.1004
Abstract
Neutral-beam heating of plasmas in the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor at low preinjection densities [(0)≃ ] were characterized by (0)=6.5 keV, (0)=20 keV, (0)=7× , =170 msec, =2, and a d(d,nHe neutron emission rate of . The ion temperature and the deuterium-fusion neutron yields were significantly higher than for previous tokamak experiments. The low initial densities were achieved by operation of the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor with low plasma currents (≤1 MA) and by extensive limiter conditioning.
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