2 papers
physics.plasm-ph2024
Highest Fusion Performance without Harmful Edge Energy Bursts in Tokamak
SangKyeun Kim, Ricardo Shousha, SeongMoo Yang +20
The path of tokamak fusion and ITER is maintaining high-performance plasma to produce sufficient fusion power. This effort is hindered by the transient energy burst arising from th…
physics.plasm-ph2024
Quantification of locked mode instability triggered by a change in confinement
M. Peterka, J. Seidl, T. Markovic +24
This work presents the first analysis of the disruptive locked mode (LM) triggered by the dynamics of a confinement change. It shows that, under certain conditions, the LM threshol…