Negative Triangularity Tokamak as Fusion Energy System

¹ JAEA, Japan
² CRPP-EPFL, Switzerland
³ Osaka University, Japan
⁴ World Class Institute, NFRI, Korea
⁵ Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Russia
⁶ Southwestern Institute of Physics, China
⁷ Kyushu University, Japan
⁸ Tottori University, Japan
⁹ Kyoto University, Japan
¹⁰ Institute of Nuclear Energy Safety Technology, CAS,China
¹¹ Wisconsin University, USA
¹² Max Planck Institute fur Plasma Physics, Germany

Published: 14 March 2014 by MDPI in 1st International e-Conference on Energies session Innovative Futuristic Solutions, Feasible Scenarios and Emerging Concepts

https://doi.org/10.3390/ece-1-e002

Abstract: Fusion energy development is quite successful in both getting equivalent energy breakevencondition in large tokamak and clarifying many important physics in the magnetically confinedplasma to proceed to a fusion experimental reactor, ITER. Now, fusion research has to solvethe power handling toward fusion demonstration power reactor (DEMO). A tokamak plasma withstrongly negative triangularity may oer such an opportunity as an innovative concept. Experimentaland theoretical works at CRPP-EPFL shows promising results for negative triangularity tokamak. In this paper, we review the current understanding of such configuration in both physicaland technological aspects.

Keywords: Fusion energy, power handling, Tokamak, Negative Triangularity

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