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<b>The Importance of the Toroidal Magnetic Field for the Feasibility of a Tokamak Burning Plasma Experiment</b>
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<b>Author:</b> E. Mazzucato
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<b>Date of PPPL Report:</b> March 2000
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<b>Published in:</b> J. Fusion Energy <b>18</b> (March 1999) 47-50. (Note: Title changed to High Field Tokamaks for Burning Plasma Experiments.)
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The next step in the demonstration of the scientific feasibility of a tokamak fusion reactor is a DT [deuterium-tritium] burning plasma experiment for the study and control of self-heated plasmas. In this paper, we examine the role of the toroidal magnetic field on the confinement of a tokamak plasma in the ELMy H-mode regime -- the operational regime foreseen for ITER [International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor].
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