Conveners
Overview: Inertial & Magnetic Fusion: OV/1
- Anatoly Krasilnikov (Russian Federation)
Overview: Magnetic Fusion: OV/3
- Predhiman K. Kaw (India)
Overview: Inertial & Magnetic Fusion: OV/5
- Sybille Guenter (Germany)
Mr
David N Hill
(USA)
10/8/12, 10:45 AM
OV - Overviews
Overview Presentation
The DIII-D Research Program has made significant advances in the physics understanding of key ITER issues and operating regimes important for ITER and future steady-state fusion tokamaks. Edge localized mode (ELM) suppression with resonant magnetic perturbations (RMP) has been now been demonstrated in the ITER baseline scenario at q_95=3.1 by controlling the poloidal mode spectrum of n=3 RMP....
Mr
Osamu Motojima
(ITER)
10/8/12, 11:10 AM
OV - Overviews
Overview Presentation
Over the last 2 years, ITER has made the transition from building up the infrastructure (ITER Organisation (IO) staff, Domestic Agencies (DAs)) and completing the design to become a real project. A new management structure was introduced in 2010 and several new communication channels were established with the DAs. To date 69 Procurement Arrangements have been signed with the DAs, representing...
Mr
Francesco Romanelli
(EU)
10/8/12, 11:35 AM
OV - Overviews
Overview Presentation
The JET programme is strongly focussed on the consolidation of the ITER design choices and the preparation of ITER operation. To this aim, during the last two years the materials of the plasma facing components (PFCs) have been replaced with the same combination foreseen in ITER, namely a combination of Be for the main wall and W for the divertor. The installation of the ILW required more than...
Mr
Edward Moses
(USA)
10/8/12, 12:00 PM
OV - Overviews
Overview Presentation
Since the completion of the National Ignition Facility (NIF) construction project in March 2009, a wide variety of experiments have been completed in support of NIF’s mission areas: national security, fundamental science, and fusion energy. NIF capabilities and infrastructure are in place with over 50 X-ray, optical and nuclear diagnostic systems and the ability to shoot cryogenic DT layered...
Mr
Steven A. Sabbagh
(USA)
10/9/12, 8:30 AM
OV - Overviews
Overview Presentation
Research on the National Spherical Torus Experiment, NSTX, targets physics understanding needed for extrapolation to a steady-state ST Fusion Nuclear Science Facility, pilot plant, or DEMO. The unique ST operational space is leveraged to test physics theories for next-step tokamak operation, including ITER. Present research also examines implications for the coming device upgrade, NSTX-U....
Mr
Hendrik Meyer
(UK)
10/9/12, 8:55 AM
OV - Overviews
Overview Presentation
New diagnostic, modelling and plant capability on MAST have delivered important results in key areas for ITER/DEMO and the upgrade. Linear gyro-kinetic calculations highlight the interplay of kinetic ballooning and micro tearing modes in setting the pedestal width. Using the upgraded 18 coil ELM control array ELM mitigation by resonant magnetic perturbations (RMP) has now been demonstrated...
Mr
Xuru Duan
(China)
10/9/12, 9:20 AM
OV - Overviews
Overview Presentation
Since the last FEC, the experiments on HL-2A tokamak have been focused on the investigations on H-mode related physics including ELM mitigation, energetic particle physics, transport including nonlocality and edge impurities, MHD instabilities, turbulence and zonal flow physics, etc. In particular, it’s demonstrated for the first time that the supersonic molecular beam injection (SMBI) and...
Mr
Katsumi Ida
(Japan)
10/9/12, 9:45 AM
OV - Overviews
Overview Presentation
In this overview, recent progress on the experimental analysis and theoretical models for non-local transport (non-Fickian fluxes in real space) are overviewed. The non-locality in the heat and momentum transport observed in the plasma, the departures from linear flux-gradient proportionality and the spontaneously and externally triggered non-local transport phenomena will be described in both...
Mr
Enrique Ascasibar
(Spain)
10/10/12, 8:30 AM
OV - Overviews
Overview Presentation
Operation with Li coated wall is the basis for a significant improvement in the performance of TJ-II, and lies behind the findings in this overview, related to the role of flows in confinement improvement. Specific progress has been performed in the use of Li as alternative to solid plasma facing materials for future fusion devices. Recently a liquid lithium limiter (LLL) based on the...
Mr
John Sarff
(USA)
10/10/12, 8:55 AM
OV - Overviews
Overview Presentation
OV/5-2Ra: Overview of Results from the MST Reversed Field Pinch Experiment
This overview of results from the MST program summarizes physics important for the advancement of the RFP as well as for improved understanding of toroidal magnetic confinement in general. Evidence for the classical confinement of ions in the RFP is provided by analysis of impurity ion transport. With inductive...
Mr
Riccardo Betti
(USA)
10/10/12, 9:20 AM
OV - Overviews
Overview Presentation
Recent advances in the theory of ignition and burn for inertial confinement fusion are presented and related to the experimental observables of the current indirect-drive ignition campaign on the National Ignition Facility (NIF) and the direct-drive implosion campaign on the OMEGA laser. The performance parameter currently used for the ignition campaign (the Experimental Ignition Threshold...
Mr
Steven Zinkle
(USA)
10/10/12, 9:45 AM
OV - Overviews
Overview Presentation
Sustained worldwide efforts on fusion energy research have led to substantial improvements in understanding of plasma physics and fusion technology issues. Several options with varying degrees of technological risk are being contemplated for the next major fusion energy device that will be constructed after ITER begins operation. These options include a variety of plasma confinement...
