Abstract
This paper presents an overview of recent highlights from research on Alcator C-Mod. Significant progress has been made across all research areas over the last two years, with particular emphasis on divertor physics and power handling, plasma-material interaction studies, edge localized mode-suppressed pedestal dynamics, core transport and turbulence, and RF heating and current drive utilizing ion cyclotron and lower hybrid tools. Specific results of particular relevance to ITER include: inner wall SOL transport studies that have led, together with results from other experiments, to the change of the detailed shape of the inner wall in ITER; runaway electron studies showing that the critical electric field required for runaway generation is much higher than predicted from collisional theory; core tungsten impurity transport studies reveal that tungsten accumulation is naturally avoided in typical C-Mod conditions.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 104020 |
Pages (from-to) | 1-23 |
Number of pages | 23 |
Journal | Nuclear Fusion |
Volume | 55 |
Issue number | 10 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 30 Jul 2015 |
Keywords
- Alcator C-Mod
- FEC 2014
- overview
- tokamak