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Author(s):
K.Itoh, S.-I.Itoh and A.Fukuyama
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Title:
Impact of Improved Confinement on Fusion Research
Date of publication:
Dec. 1990
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Key words:
Improvement of confinement time, fusion research, reactor study cost, step size, reliability
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Abstract:
The effect of the improvement of the plasma confinement (such as energy confinement time and purity and so on) on the fusion research is investigated for the ITER grade plasma. The impact of the confinement improvement is quantitatively evaluated from the view points of (1) necessary size and cost, (2) the engineering R & D (3) the economic potential and (4) reduction of the ambiguity in the design of future devices. It is shown that the confinement improvement has strong and favorable influence for these aspects.
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