Pathfinder for steady-state high-confinement physics in tokamaks——EAST
With the achievement of controlled deuterium-tritium nuclear fusion on the scale of 10 MW in a tokamak,magnetic-confinement fusion entered the era of experimental reactors.A high-confinement steady-state tokamak is the key step to realize commercial fusion energy.China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak(EAST)aims to solve the issues challenging ITER and future steady-state operation of fusion reactors,and has recently made significant progress in this area,demonstrating for the first time long pulse operation of a steady-state high-confinement regime of tokamak.This is an important step forward for ITER operation and future fusion reactor design.
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