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Wang L, Wang HQ, Ding S, Garofalo AM, Gong XZ, Eldon D, Guo HY, Leonard AW, Hyatt AW, Qian JP, Weisberg DB, McClenaghan J, Fenstermacher ME, Lasnier CJ, Watkins JG, Shafer MW, Xu GS, Huang J, Ren QL, Buttery RJ, Humphreys DA, Thomas DM, Zhang B, Liu JB. Integration of full divertor detachment with improved core confinement for tokamak fusion plasmas. Nat Commun 2021; 12:1365. [PMID: 33649306 PMCID: PMC7921092 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-21645-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2020] [Accepted: 01/29/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
Abstract
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 compatibility of actively controlled full divertor detachment with a high-performance (βN ~ 3, H98 ~ 1.5) core plasma, using high-βp (poloidal beta, βp > 2) scenario characterized by a sustained core internal transport barrier (ITB) and a modest edge transport barrier (ETB) in DIII-D tokamak. The high-βp high-confinement scenario facilitates divertor detachment which, in turn, promotes the development of an even stronger ITB at large radius with a weaker ETB. This self-organized synergy between ITB and ETB, leads to a net gain in energy confinement, in contrast to the net confinement loss caused by divertor detachment in standard H-modes. These results show the potential of integrating excellent core plasma performance with an efficient divertor solution, an essential step towards steady-state operation of reactor-grade plasmas.
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- L Wang
- Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, China
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- General Atomics, San Diego, CA, USA.
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- Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, China
- Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
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- Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, China
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- General Atomics, San Diego, CA, USA
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- General Atomics, San Diego, CA, USA
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- Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, China
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA
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- Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA, USA
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- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
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- Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, China
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- Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, China
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- Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, China
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- Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, China
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- Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, China
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Hollmann EM, Parks PB, Shiraki D, Alexander N, Eidietis NW, Lasnier CJ, Moyer RA. Demonstration of Tokamak Discharge Shutdown with Shell Pellet Payload Impurity Dispersal. Phys Rev Lett 2019; 122:065001. [PMID: 30822084 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.122.065001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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The first rapid tokamak discharge shutdown using dispersive core payload deposition with shell pellets has been achieved in the DIII-D tokamak. Shell pellets are being investigated as a possible new path toward achieving tokamak disruption mitigation with both low conducted wall heat loads and slow current quench. Conventional disruption mitigation injects radiating impurities into the outer edge of the tokamak plasma, which tends to result in poor impurity assimilation and creates a strong edge cooling and outward heat flow, thus requiring undesirable high-Z impurities to achieve low conducted heat loads. The shell pellet technique aims to produce a hollow temperature profile by using a thin, low-ablation shell surrounding a dispersive payload, giving a greatly increased impurity ablation (and radiation) rate when the payload is released in the plasma core. This principle was demonstrated successfully using 3.6 mm outer diameter, 40 μm thickness diamond shells holding boron powder. The pellets caused rapid (<10 ms) discharge shutdown with low conducted divertor heat fluence (∼0.1 MJ/m^{2}). Confirmation of massive release of the boron powder payload into the plasma core was obtained spectroscopically. Some evidence for the formation of a hollow temperature profile during the shutdown was observed. These first results open a new avenue for disruption mitigation research, hopefully enabling development of highly effective methods of avoiding disruption wall damage in future reactor-scale tokamaks.
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- E M Hollmann
- University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
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- General Atomics, San Diego, California 92186, USA
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- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- General Atomics, San Diego, California 92186, USA
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- General Atomics, San Diego, California 92186, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
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Moyer RA, Bykov I, Orlov DM, Evans TE, Lee JS, Teklu AM, Fenstermacher ME, Makowski M, Lasnier CJ, Wang HQ, Watkins JG, Wu W. Imaging divertor strike point splitting in RMP ELM suppression experiments in the DIII-D tokamak. Rev Sci Instrum 2018; 89:10E106. [PMID: 30399795 DOI: 10.1063/1.5038350] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2018] [Accepted: 06/08/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Fast visible imaging of the lower divertor from above is used to study the structure and dynamics of lobes induced by resonant magnetic perturbations (RMPs) in Edge-Localized Mode (ELM) suppression experiments in DIII-D. The best compromise between the amount of light and sharp imaging was obtained using emission at 601 nm from Fulcher band molecular deuterium. Multiple spatially resolved peaks in the D2 emission, taken as a proxy for the particle flux, are readily resolved during RMPs, in contrast to the heat flux measured by infrared cameras, which shows little spatial structure in ITER-like conditions. The 25 mm objective lens provides high spatial resolution (2-4 mm/pixel) from the centerpost to the outer shelf over 40° toroidally that overlaps the field of view of the IRTV that measures the divertor heat flux, allowing direct comparison in non-axisymmetric discharges. The image is coupled to a Phantom 7.3 camera using a Schott wound fiber bundle, providing high temporal resolution that allows the lobe dynamics to be resolved between ELMs and across ELM suppression onset. These measurements are used to study the heat and particle flux in 3D magnetic fields and to validate models for the plasma response to RMPs.
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- R A Moyer
- Center for Energy Research, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0417, USA
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- Center for Energy Research, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0417, USA
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- Center for Energy Research, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0417, USA
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- General Atomics, San Diego, California 92186-5608, USA
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- University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Sandia National Laboratories, California, Livermore, California 94551-0969, USA
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- General Atomics, San Diego, California 92186-5608, USA
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Samuell CM, Allen SL, Meyer WH, Isler RC, Briesemeister A, Wilcox RS, Lasnier CJ, Mclean AG, Howard J. Verification of Doppler coherence imaging for 2D ion velocity measurements on DIII-D. Rev Sci Instrum 2018; 89:093502. [PMID: 30278733 DOI: 10.1063/1.5039367] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2018] [Accepted: 08/17/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Coherence Imaging Spectroscopy (CIS) has emerged as a powerful tool for investigating complex ion phenomena in the boundary of magnetically confined plasma devices. The combination of Fourier-transform interferometry and high-resolution fast-framing cameras has made it possible to make sensitive velocity measurements that are also spatially resolved. However, this sensitivity makes the diagnostic vulnerable to environmental effects including thermal drifts, vibration, and magnetic fields that can influence the velocity measurement. Additionally, the ability to provide an absolute calibration for these geometries can be impacted by differences in the light-collection geometry between the plasma and reference light source, spectral impurities, and the presence of thin-films on in-vessel optics. This paper discusses the mitigation of these effects and demonstration that environmental effects result in less than 0.5 km/s error on the DIII-D CIS systems. A diagnostic comparison is used to demonstrate agreement between CIS and traditional spectroscopy once tomographic artifacts are accounted for.
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- C M Samuell
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830, USA
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- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830, USA
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- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
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Boivin RL, Luxon JL, Austin ME, Brooks NH, Burrell KH, Doyle EJ, Fenstermacher ME, Gray DS, Groth M, Hsieh CL, Jayakumar RJ, Lasnier CJ, Leonard AW, McKee GR, Moyer RA, Rhodes TL, Rost JC, Rudakov DL, Schaffer MJ, Strait EJ, Thomas DM, Van Zeeland M, Watkins JG, Watson GW, Wong CPC. DIII-D Diagnostic Systems. Fusion Science and Technology 2017. [DOI: 10.13182/fst05-a1043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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- General Atomics, P.O. Box 85608, San Diego, California 92186-5608
- University of Texas–Austin, Austin, Texas
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- General Atomics, P.O. Box 85608, San Diego, California 92186-5608
- University of California–Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
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- General Atomics, P.O. Box 85608, San Diego, California 92186-5608
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California/University of California–Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
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- General Atomics, P.O. Box 85608, San Diego, California 92186-5608
- University of California–San Diego, La Jolla, California
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- General Atomics, P.O. Box 85608, San Diego, California 92186-5608
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California/University of California–Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
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- General Atomics, P.O. Box 85608, San Diego, California 92186-5608
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California/University of California–Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
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- General Atomics, P.O. Box 85608, San Diego, California 92186-5608
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California/University of California–Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
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- General Atomics, P.O. Box 85608, San Diego, California 92186-5608
- University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
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- General Atomics, P.O. Box 85608, San Diego, California 92186-5608
- University of California–San Diego, La Jolla, California
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- General Atomics, P.O. Box 85608, San Diego, California 92186-5608
- University of California–Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
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- General Atomics, P.O. Box 85608, San Diego, California 92186-5608
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- General Atomics, P.O. Box 85608, San Diego, California 92186-5608
- University of California–San Diego, La Jolla, California
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- General Atomics, P.O. Box 85608, San Diego, California 92186-5608
- University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
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- General Atomics, P.O. Box 85608, San Diego, California 92186-5608
- Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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- General Atomics, P.O. Box 85608, San Diego, California 92186-5608
- University of California–Irvine, Irvine, California
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- C. J. Murphy
- General Atomics, P.O. Box 85608, San Diego, California 92186-5608
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- General Atomics, P.O. Box 85608, San Diego, California 92186-5608
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California
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Lasnier CJ, Allen SL, Boedo JA, Groth M, Brooks NH, McLean A, LaBombard B, Skinner CH, Rudakov DL, West WP, Wong CPC. Chapter 10: First Wall and Operational Diagnostics. Fusion Science and Technology 2017. [DOI: 10.13182/fst08-a1682] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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- C. J. Lasnier
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550
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- University of California, San Diego, California 92093
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550
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- General Atomics, P.O. Box 85608, San Diego, California 92186-5608
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- University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M3H 5T6, Canada
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
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- Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey 08543
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- University of California, San Diego, California 92093
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- General Atomics, P.O. Box 85608, San Diego, California 92186-5608
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- General Atomics, P.O. Box 85608, San Diego, California 92186-5608
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Lasnier CJ, McLean AG, Gattuso A, O'Neill R, Smiley M, Vasquez J, Feder R, Smith M, Stratton B, Johnson D, Verlaan AL, Heijmans JAC. Upper wide-angle viewing system for ITER. Rev Sci Instrum 2016; 87:11D426. [PMID: 27910636 DOI: 10.1063/1.4960489] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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The Upper Wide Angle Viewing System (UWAVS) will be installed on five upper ports of ITER. This paper shows major requirements, gives an overview of the preliminary design with reasons for some design choices, examines self-emitted IR light from UWAVS optics and its effect on accuracy, and shows calculations of signal-to-noise ratios for the two-color temperature output as a function of integration time and divertor temperature. Accurate temperature output requires correction for vacuum window absorption vs. wavelength and for self-emitted IR, which requires good measurement of the temperature of the optical components. The anticipated signal-to-noise ratio using presently available IR cameras is adequate for the required 500 Hz frame rate.
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- C J Lasnier
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551-0808, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551-0808, USA
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- General Atomics, P.O. Box 85608, San Diego, California 92186-5608, USA
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- General Atomics, P.O. Box 85608, San Diego, California 92186-5608, USA
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- General Atomics, P.O. Box 85608, San Diego, California 92186-5608, USA
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- General Atomics, P.O. Box 85608, San Diego, California 92186-5608, USA
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- Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey 08543, USA
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- Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey 08543, USA
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- Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey 08543, USA
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- Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey 08543, USA
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- TNO, P.O. Box 155, NL-2600 AD Delft, Netherlands
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Lasnier CJ, Allen SL, Ellis RE, Fenstermacher ME, McLean AG, Meyer WH, Morris K, Seppala LG, Crabtree K, Van Zeeland MA. Wide-angle ITER-prototype tangential infrared and visible viewing system for DIII-D. Rev Sci Instrum 2014; 85:11D855. [PMID: 25430268 DOI: 10.1063/1.4892897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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An imaging system with a wide-angle tangential view of the full poloidal cross-section of the tokamak in simultaneous infrared and visible light has been installed on DIII-D. The optical train includes three polished stainless steel mirrors in vacuum, which view the tokamak through an aperture in the first mirror, similar to the design concept proposed for ITER. A dichroic beam splitter outside the vacuum separates visible and infrared (IR) light. Spatial calibration is accomplished by warping a CAD-rendered image to align with landmarks in a data image. The IR camera provides scrape-off layer heat flux profile deposition features in diverted and inner-wall-limited plasmas, such as heat flux reduction in pumped radiative divertor shots. Demonstration of the system to date includes observation of fast-ion losses to the outer wall during neutral beam injection, and shows reduced peak wall heat loading with disruption mitigation by injection of a massive gas puff.
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- C J Lasnier
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551-0808, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551-0808, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551-0808, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551-0808, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551-0808, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551-0808, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551-0808, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551-0808, USA
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- College of Optics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
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- General Atomics, P.O. Box 85608, San Diego, California 92186-5608, USA
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Baylor LR, Commaux N, Jernigan TC, Brooks NH, Combs SK, Evans TE, Fenstermacher ME, Isler RC, Lasnier CJ, Meitner SJ, Moyer RA, Osborne TH, Parks PB, Snyder PB, Strait EJ, Unterberg EA, Loarte A. Reduction of edge-localized mode intensity using high-repetition-rate pellet injection in tokamak H-mode plasmas. Phys Rev Lett 2013; 110:245001. [PMID: 25165932 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.110.245001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2012] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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High repetition rate injection of deuterium pellets from the low-field side (LFS) of the DIII-D tokamak is shown to trigger high-frequency edge-localized modes (ELMs) at up to 12× the low natural ELM frequency in H-mode deuterium plasmas designed to match the ITER baseline configuration in shape, normalized beta, and input power just above the H-mode threshold. The pellet size, velocity, and injection location were chosen to limit penetration to the outer 10% of the plasma. The resulting perturbations to the plasma density and energy confinement time are thus minimal (<10%). The triggered ELMs occur at much lower normalized pedestal pressure than the natural ELMs, suggesting that the pellet injection excites a localized high-n instability. Triggered ELMs produce up to 12× lower energy and particle fluxes to the divertor, and result in a strong decrease in plasma core impurity density. These results show for the first time that shallow, LFS pellet injection can dramatically accelerate the ELM cycle and reduce ELM energy fluxes on plasma facing components, and is a viable technique for real-time control of ELMs in ITER.
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- L R Baylor
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-8072, USA
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- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-8072, USA
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- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-8072, USA
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- General Atomics, San Diego, California 92186-5608, USA
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- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-8072, USA
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- General Atomics, San Diego, California 92186-5608, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-8072, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-8072, USA
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- University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0319, USA
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- General Atomics, San Diego, California 92186-5608, USA
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- General Atomics, San Diego, California 92186-5608, USA
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- General Atomics, San Diego, California 92186-5608, USA
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- General Atomics, San Diego, California 92186-5608, USA
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- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-8072, USA
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- ITER Organization, Route de Vinon sur Verdon, 13115 Saint Paul Lez Durance Cedex, France
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Wingen A, Evans TE, Lasnier CJ, Spatschek KH. Numerical modeling of edge-localized-mode filaments on divertor plates based on thermoelectric currents. Phys Rev Lett 2010; 104:175001. [PMID: 20482113 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.104.175001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2009] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Edge localized modes (ELMs) are qualitatively and quantitatively modeled in tokamaks using current bursts which have been observed in the scrape-off-layer (SOL) during an ELM crash. During the initial phase of an ELM, a heat pulse causes thermoelectric currents. They first flow in short connection length flux tubes which are initially established by error fields or other nonaxisymmetric magnetic perturbations. The currents change the magnetic field topology in such a way that larger areas of short connection length flux tubes emerge. Then currents predominantly flow in short SOL-like flux tubes and scale with the area of the flux tube assuming a constant current density. Quantitative predictions of flux tube patterns for a given current are in excellent agreement with measurements of the heat load and current flow at the DIII-D target plates during an ELM cycle.
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- A Wingen
- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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Schmitz O, Evans TE, Fenstermacher ME, Unterberg EA, Austin ME, Bray BD, Brooks NH, Frerichs H, Groth M, Jakubowski MW, Lasnier CJ, Lehnen M, Leonard AW, Mordijck S, Moyer RA, Osborne TH, Reiter D, Samm U, Schaffer MJ, Unterberg B, West WP. Resonant pedestal pressure reduction induced by a thermal transport enhancement due to stochastic magnetic boundary layers in high temperature plasmas. Phys Rev Lett 2009; 103:165005. [PMID: 19905705 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.103.165005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2009] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Good alignment of the magnetic field line pitch angle with the mode structure of an external resonant magnetic perturbation (RMP) field is shown to induce modulation of the pedestal electron pressure p(e) in high confinement high rotation plasmas at the DIII-D tokamak with a shape similar to ITER, the next step tokamak experiment. This is caused by an edge safety factor q95 resonant enhancement of the thermal transport, while in contrast, the RMP induced particle pump out does not show a significant resonance. The measured p(e) reduction correlates to an increase in the modeled stochastic layer width during pitch angle variations matching results from resistive low rotation plasmas at the TEXTOR tokamak. These findings suggest a field line pitch angle resonant formation of a stochastic magnetic edge layer as an explanation for the q95 resonant character of type-I edge localized mode suppression by RMPs.
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- O Schmitz
- Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, IEF4-Plasma Physics, 52428 Jülich, Germany
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Groth M, Ellis RM, Brooks NH, Fenstermacher ME, Lasnier CJ, Meyer WH, Moeller JM. Measurements of spatial line emission profiles in the main scrape-off layer of the DIII-D tokamak. Rev Sci Instrum 2009; 80:033505. [PMID: 19334920 DOI: 10.1063/1.3103575] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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A video camera system is described as that measures the spatial distribution of visible line emission emitted from the main scrape-off layer (SOL) of plasmas in the DIII-D tokamak. A wide-angle lens installed on an equatorial port and an in-vessel mirror, which intercepts part of the lens' view, provide simultaneous tangential views of the SOL on the low-field and high-field sides of the plasma's equatorial plane. Tomographic reconstruction techniques are used to calculate the two-dimensional (2D) poloidal profiles from the raw data, and one-dimensional (1D) poloidal profiles simulating chordal views of other optical diagnostics from the 2D profiles. The 2D profiles can be compared with SOL plasma simulations; the 1D profiles with measurements from spectroscopic diagnostics. Sample results are presented, which elucidate carbon transport in plasmas with toroidally uniform injection of methane and argon transport in disruption mitigation experiments with massive gas jet injection.
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- M Groth
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, Livermore, California, 94551-0808, USA
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Rudakov DL, Yu JH, Boedo JA, Hollmann EM, Krasheninnikov SI, Moyer RA, Muller SH, Pigarov AY, Rosenberg M, Smirnov RD, West WP, Boivin RL, Bray BD, Brooks NH, Hyatt AW, Wong CPC, Roquemore AL, Skinner CH, Solomon WM, Ratynskaia S, Fenstermacher ME, Groth M, Lasnier CJ, McLean AG, Stangeby PC. Dust measurements in tokamaks (invited). Rev Sci Instrum 2008; 79:10F303. [PMID: 19044616 DOI: 10.1063/1.2969422] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Dust production and accumulation present potential safety and operational issues for the ITER. Dust diagnostics can be divided into two groups: diagnostics of dust on surfaces and diagnostics of dust in plasma. Diagnostics from both groups are employed in contemporary tokamaks; new diagnostics suitable for ITER are also being developed and tested. Dust accumulation in ITER is likely to occur in hidden areas, e.g., between tiles and under divertor baffles. A novel electrostatic dust detector for monitoring dust in these regions has been developed and tested at PPPL. In the DIII-D tokamak dust diagnostics include Mie scattering from Nd:YAG lasers, visible imaging, and spectroscopy. Laser scattering is able to resolve particles between 0.16 and 1.6 microm in diameter; using these data the total dust content in the edge plasmas and trends in the dust production rates within this size range have been established. Individual dust particles are observed by visible imaging using fast framing cameras, detecting dust particles of a few microns in diameter and larger. Dust velocities and trajectories can be determined in two-dimension with a single camera or three-dimension using multiple cameras, but determination of particle size is challenging. In order to calibrate diagnostics and benchmark dust dynamics modeling, precharacterized carbon dust has been injected into the lower divertor of DIII-D. Injected dust is seen by cameras, and spectroscopic diagnostics observe an increase in carbon line (CI, CII, C(2) dimer) and thermal continuum emissions from the injected dust. The latter observation can be used in the design of novel dust survey diagnostics.
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- D L Rudakov
- University of California, San Diego, California 92093, USA
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Evans TE, Roeder RKW, Carter JA, Rapoport BI, Fenstermacher ME, Lasnier CJ. Experimental signatures of homoclinic tangles in poloidally diverted tokamaks. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005. [DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/7/1/015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 121] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Evans TE, Moyer RA, Thomas PR, Watkins JG, Osborne TH, Boedo JA, Doyle EJ, Fenstermacher ME, Finken KH, Groebner RJ, Groth M, Harris JH, La Haye RJ, Lasnier CJ, Masuzaki S, Ohyabu N, Pretty DG, Rhodes TL, Reimerdes H, Rudakov DL, Schaffer MJ, Wang G, Zeng L. Suppression of large edge-localized modes in high-confinement DIII-D plasmas with a stochastic magnetic boundary. Phys Rev Lett 2004; 92:235003. [PMID: 15245164 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.92.235003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2003] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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A stochastic magnetic boundary, produced by an applied edge resonant magnetic perturbation, is used to suppress most large edge-localized modes (ELMs) in high confinement (H-mode) plasmas. The resulting H mode displays rapid, small oscillations with a bursty character modulated by a coherent 130 Hz envelope. The H mode transport barrier and core confinement are unaffected by the stochastic boundary, despite a threefold drop in the toroidal rotation. These results demonstrate that stochastic boundaries are compatible with H modes and may be attractive for ELM control in next-step fusion tokamaks.
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- T E Evans
- General Atomics, San Diego, California, USA
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Whyte DG, Jernigan TC, Humphreys DA, Hyatt AW, Lasnier CJ, Parks PB, Evans TE, Rosenbluth MN, Taylor PL, Kellman AG, Gray DS, Hollmann EM, Combs SK. Mitigation of tokamak disruptions using high-pressure gas injection. Phys Rev Lett 2002; 89:055001. [PMID: 12144446 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.89.055001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2002] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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High-pressure gas-jet injection of neon and argon is shown to be a simple and robust method to mitigate the deleterious effects of disruptions on the DIII-D tokamak. The gas jet penetrates to the central plasma at its sonic velocity. The deposited species dissipates >95% of the plasma by radiation and substantially reduces mechanical stresses on the vessel caused by poloidal halo currents. The gas-jet species-charge distribution can include >50% fraction neutral species which inhibits runaway electrons. The favorable scaling of this technique to burning fusion plasmas is discussed.
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- D G Whyte
- University of California, San Diego, California, USA
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Lazarus EA, Navratil GA, Greenfield CM, Strait EJ, Austin ME, Burrell KH, Casper TA, Baker DR, DeBoo JC, Doyle EJ, Durst R, Ferron JR, Forest CB, Gohil P, Groebner RJ, Heidbrink WW, Hong R, Houlberg WA, Howald AW, Hsieh C, Hyatt AW, Jackson GL, Kim J, Lao LL, Lasnier CJ, Leonard AW, Lohr J, Maingi R, Miller RL, Murakami M, Osborne TH, Perkins LJ, Petty CC, Rettig CL, Rhodes TL, Rice BW, Sabbagh SA, Schissel DP, Scoville JT, Snider RT, Staebler GM, Stallard BW, Stambaugh RD, Stockdale RE, Taylor PL, Thomas DM, Turnbull AD, Wade MR, Wood R, Whyte D. Higher Fusion Power Gain with Current and Pressure Profile Control in Strongly Shaped DIII-D Tokamak Plasmas. Phys Rev Lett 1996; 77:2714-2717. [PMID: 10062027 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.77.2714] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Allen SL, Brown MD, Byers JA, Casper TA, Cohen BI, Cohen RH, Fenstermacher ME, Foote JH, Hooper EB, Lasnier CJ, Lopez P, Makowski MA, Marinak MM, Meyer WH, Moller JM, Nevins WM, Rice BW, Rognlien TD, Smith GR, Stallard BW, Scharlemann ET, Thomassen KI, Wood RD, Hoshino K, Oasa K, Oda T, Odajima K, Ogawa T, Ohgo T. Nonlinear absorption of high power free-electron-laser-generated microwaves at electron cyclotron resonance heating frequencies in the MTX tokamak. Phys Rev Lett 1994; 72:1348-1351. [PMID: 10056690 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.72.1348] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Lasnier CJ, Ellis RF. Emission and absorption coefficients for parallel synchrotron radiation by magnetically trapped electrons. Phys Rev A Gen Phys 1986; 33:742-744. [PMID: 9896671 DOI: 10.1103/physreva.33.742] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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