Magnetic Fusion Energy

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The Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor

M.G. Bell     Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (retired), Princeton, NJ, United States

Abstract

This chapter describes the design, operational regimes and results of the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) which operated at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory from 1982 to 1997. TFTR was a large tokamak (plasma current up to 3 MA) equipped with high power auxiliary heating by neutral beam injection (up to 40MW) and RF waves (up to 11 MW) and excellent plasma diagnostics. After developing and characterizing regimes of operation in deuterium plasmas with temperatures and density approaching those required for a fusion reactor, TFTR conducted an extensive research program with deuterium-tritium plasmas between ...