Edge-localized-mode suppression through density-profile modification with lithium-wall coatings in the national spherical torus experiment

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Maingi, R ^a   Osborne, T H ^b   Leblanc, B P ^c   Bell, R E ^c   Manickam, J ^c   Snyder, P B ^b   Menard, J E ^c   Mansfield, D K ^c   Kugel, H W ^c   Kaita, R ^c   Gerhardt, S P ^c   Sabbagh, S A ^d   Kelly, F A ^c  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b GENERAL ATOMICS   (United States)

^c PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALLOONING MODES; EDGE LOCALIZED MODES; EDGE STABILITY; ENERGY CONFINEMENT; FUSION DEVICES; GLOBAL STABILITY; HIGH CONFINEMENT; MODE SUPPRESSION; NATIONAL SPHERICAL TORUS EXPERIMENTS; PLASMA-FACING COMPONENTS; PRESSURE PROFILES; PROFILE MODIFICATION;

FUSION REACTORS; PLASMAS;

LITHIUM;

EID: 68949113561     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.075001     Document Type: Article

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