Abstract
The large helical device (LHD), now under construction, is a heliotron/torsatron device with a closed divertor system. The edge LHD magnetic structure has been studied in detail. A peculiar feature of the configuration is the existence of edge surface layers, a complicated three-dimensional magnetic structure. However, it does not seem to hamper the expected divertor functions. As a confinement improvement scheme in LHD, we have proposed a high temperature divertor plasma operation in which a divertor plasma with a temperature of a few keV, generated by efficient pumping, leads to the confinement improvement. Conceptual designs of the LHD divertor components are under way.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 276-280 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Journal of Nuclear Materials |
| Volume | 196-198 |
| Issue number | C |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Dec 1 1992 |
| Externally published | Yes |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics
- General Materials Science
- Nuclear Energy and Engineering