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Negative triangularity tokamaks: a power plant plasma solution from the core to the edge?
- Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion journal is set to release a special issue on Negative Triangularity Tokamaks with a webinar discussing details surrounding this plasma shaping concept and its potential solution to power exhaust.
- Researchers have found that negative triangularity plasmas have been observed to improve energy confinement significantly.
- It can improve energy confinement by more than a factor of two whilst materially preventing H-mode.
- It holds significant promise in terms of power plant engineering and fusion energy.
- The confinement improvement should enable it to achieve similar confinement to a positive triangularity H-mode and avoid typical difficulties of damaging edge localized modes (ELMs) and the narrow scrape-off layer (SOL) width.
- The negative triangularity approach offers an elegant and simple method that could reduce the potential problems facing power plant engineering concerning Tokamak's power exhaust.
- Lack of certainty is the biggest deficiency facing researchers.
- No Tokamak's in the world are configured to create negative triangularity plasmas and the concept has not been visited as much by the theory community.
- Researchers will explore what is known and unknown about negative triangularity plasmas and assess its potential future as a power plant solution.
- Several theoretical and experimental physicists will come together in a webinar to discuss the possibility of negative triangularity as a power plant solution.
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