Physics Regimes in the Fusion Ignition Research Experiment (FIRE)
- Meade, D.M.
- S.C.Jardin
- Kessel, C.E.
- Ulrickson, M.A.
- Schultz, J.H.
- Rutherford, P.H.
- Schmidt, J.A.
- Wesley, J.C.
- Young, K.M.
- N.A.Uckan
- Thome, R.J.
- Heitzenroeder, P.
- Nelson, B.E.
- C.C.Baker, and
DOIAbstract
Burning plasma science is recognized widely as the next frontier in fusion research. The Fusion Ignition Research Experiment (FIRE) is a design study of a next-step burning plasma experiment with the goal of developing a concept for an experimental facility to explore and understand the strong nonlinear coupling among confinement, magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) self-heating, stability, edge physics, and wave-particle interactions that is fundamental to fusion plasma behavior. This will require plasmas dominated by alpha heating (Q greater than or equal to 5) that are sustained for a duration comparable to characteristic plasma timescales (greater than or equal to 10) tau(subscript ''E''), approximately 4 tau(subscript ''He''), approximately 2 ta...
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