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Fusion power production from TFTR plasmas fueled with deuterium and tritium.

  • Author(s): Strachan, JD;
  • Adler, H;
  • Alling, P;
  • Ancher, C;
  • Anderson, H;
  • Anderson, JL;
  • Ashcroft, D;
  • Barnes, CW;
  • Barnes, G;
  • Batha, S;
  • Bell, MG;
  • Bell, R;
  • Bitter, M;
  • Blanchard, W;
  • Bretz, NL;
  • Budny, R;
  • Bush, CE;
  • Camp, R;
  • Caorlin, M;
  • Cauffman, S;
  • Chang, Z;
  • Cheng, CZ;
  • Collins, J;
  • Coward, G;
  • Darrow, DS;
  • DeLooper, J;
  • Duong, H;
  • Dudek, L;
  • Durst, R;
  • Efthimion, PC;
  • Ernst, D;
  • Fisher, R;
  • Fonck, RJ;
  • Fredrickson, E;
  • Fromm, N;
  • Fu, GY;
  • Furth, HP;
  • Gentile, C;
  • Gorelenkov, N;
  • Grek, B;
  • Grisham, LR;
  • Hammett, G;
  • Hanson, GR;
  • Hawryluk, RJ;
  • Heidbrink, W;
  • Herrmann, HW;
  • Hill, KW;
  • Hosea, J;
  • Hsuan, H;
  • Janos, A;
  • Jassby, DL;
  • Jobes, FC;
  • Johnson, DW;
  • Johnson, LC;
  • Kamperschroer, J;
  • Kugel, H;
  • Lam, NT;
  • LaMarche, PH;
  • Loughlin, MJ;
  • LeBlanc, B;
  • Leonard, M;
  • Levinton, FM;
  • Machuzak, J;
  • Mansfield, DK
  • et al.

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https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.72.3526Creative Commons 'BY' version 4.0 license
Abstract

Peak fusion power production of 6.2±0.4 MW has been achieved in TFTR plasmas heated by deuterium and tritium neutral beams at a total power of 29.5 MW. These plasmas have an inferred central fusion alpha particle density of 1.2×1017 m-3 without the appearance of either disruptive magnetohydrodynamics events or detectable changes in Alfvén wave activity. The measured loss rate of energetic alpha particles agreed with the approximately 5% losses expected from alpha particles which are born on unconfined orbits. © 1994 The American Physical Society.

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