Progress towards high-performance steady-state operation on DIII-D

Fusion Engineering and Design

Volumn 81, Issue 23-24, 2006, Pages 2807-2815

  Greenfield, C M ^a   Murakami, M ^b   Garofalo, A M ^c   Doyle, E J ^d   Ferron, J R ^a   Wade, M R ^a   Austin, M E ^e   Allen, S L ^f   Burrell, K H ^a   Casper, T A ^f   DeBoo, J C ^a   Gohil, P ^a   Gorelov, I A ^a   Groebner, R J ^a   Heidbrink, W W ^g   Hyatt, A W ^a   Jackson, G L ^a   Jayakumar, R J ^f   Kajiwara, K ^a   Kessel, C E ^h   Kinsey, J E ⁱ   Kim, J Y ^j   La Haye, R J ^a   Lao, L L ^a   Lohr, J ^a   Luce, T C ^a   Luo, Y ^g   Makowski, M A ^f   Mazon, D ^k   McKee, G R ^l   Okabayashi, M ^h   Osborne, T H ^a   Petty, C C ^a   Petrie, T W ^a   Pinsker, R I ^a   Prater, R ^a   Politzer, P A ^a   Reimerdes, H ^c   Rhodes, T L ^d   Sips, A C C ^m   Scoville, J T ^a   Solomon, W M ^h   Staebler, G M ^a   St John, H E ^a   Strait, E J ^a   Taylor, T S ^a   Turnbull, A D ^a   Van Zeeland, M A ⁿ   Wang, G ^d   West, W P ^a   Zeng, L ^d   more..

^a GENERAL ATOMICS   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^f LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁱ LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j Korea Basic Science Institute (KBSI)   (South Korea)

^k IRFM   (France)

^l UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^m MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PLASMAPHYSIK   (Germany)

ⁿ OAK RIDGE INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE AND EDUCATION   (United States)

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Author keywords

Steady state; Tokamak

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRON BEAMS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; PLASMAS;

ELECTRON CYCLOTRON CURRENT DRIVE (ECCD); NEUTRAL BEAM CURRENT DRIVE (NBCD); STEADY STATE OPERATION; TOKAMAK;

FUSION REACTIONS;

EID: 33846021972     PISSN: 09203796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fusengdes.2006.07.081     Document Type: Article

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