Enhanced performance in the START tokamak

P. G. Carolan, R. Akers, L. C. Appel, N. J. Conway, G. Counsell, A R Field, D. Gates, S J Gee, M. Gryaznevich, I. Jenkins,

Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion · 1998 · 13 citations · 4 references

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Abstract

The combination of additional heating of MW neutral beam injection and wall conditioning (boronization, titanium gettering and inter-shot helium-glow-discharge cleaning) has allowed the START spherical tokamak to achieve record beta values of . Here we report the more recent demonstration of a transition to a higher confinement mode.

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