Abstract
Twenty percent of the energy produced in a power station based around the self-sustaining thermonuclear fusion of deuterium and tritium ions will be released in the form of highly energetic (3.5 MeV) He2+ ions (alpha particles). In addition to this highly energetic population of ions that is expected to slow down on the rest of the bulk plasma, thereby heating it and sustaining the thermonuclear reaction, auxiliary heating systems that also produce energetic ions will be used to initiate and control the plasma burn. These different populations of fast particles have the potential to drive various instabilities in the plasma with possibly deleterious consequences for the reactor’s performance and the integrity of the plant. The extent to which these energetic particle driven modes can be diagnosed and controlled is considered in this Chapter.
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This work was part-funded by the RCUK Energy Programme [grant number EP/I501045] and by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. The views and opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect those of the European Commission or of the ITER Organization.
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Pinches, S.D., Sharapov, S.E. (2015). Energetic Particle Driven Modes. In: Igochine, V. (eds) Active Control of Magneto-hydrodynamic Instabilities in Hot Plasmas. Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics, vol 83. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44222-7_9
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