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Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 2025)
February 3–6, 2025
Amelia Island, FL|Omni Amelia Island Resort
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A more open future for nuclear research
A growing number of institutional, national, and funder mandates are requiring researchers to make their published work immediately publicly accessible, through either open repositories or open access (OA) publications. In addition, both private and public funders are developing policies, such as those from the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the European Commission, that ask researchers to make publicly available at the time of publication as much of their underlying data and other materials as possible. These, combined with movement in the scientific community toward embracing open science principles (seen, for example, in the dramatic rise of preprint servers like arXiv), demonstrate a need for a different kind of publishing outlet.
T. Morisaki, S. Masuzaki, M. Kobayashi, R. Sakamoto, K. Tanaka, K. Narihara, H. Funaba, Y. Feng, F. Sardei, N. Ohyabu, A. Komori, O. Motojima, LHD Experimental Group, Y. Feng, F. Sardei
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 50 | Number 2 | August 2006 | Pages 216-221
Technical Paper | Stellarators | doi.org/10.13182/FST06-A1238
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Confinement improvement of ~20% from the ISS95 scaling law has been observed in the outwardly shifted configuration on the local island divertor (LID) experiment. In the configuration, highly peaked electron density profiles, together with peaked electron temperature profiles, are established with hydrogen pellet injection. A steep density gradient is formed in the internal region near the rational surface of q = 2 in the density decay phase after pellet injection. The plasma stored energy or central beta value increases and reaches its maximum as the density decreases, which is typical behavior of the reheat mode. Because of the increase in the central pressure, a large Shafranov shift is observed in the electron temperature and density profiles measured with a Thomson scattering system, suggesting the formation of the internal transport barrier during the LID discharge. Such better confinement has never been seen in inwardly shifted configurations. The reason for that is discussed taking the energy and particle transport into consideration. Recent results from a modeling study with the EMC3-EIRENE code are also presented.
