TY - GEN
T1 - Past and present experiments toward PLATO project
AU - Fujisawa, Akihide
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The author would like to express his sincere appreciations and respects to Prof. K. Itoh and Prof. S-I. Itoh for their long-standing activities and distinguished achievements on the occasion of their retirements. Special thanks are also given to Profs. K. Matsuoka, K. Ida, H. Iguchi, S. Okamura, A. Shimizu, T. Ido in NIFS, Profs. S. Inagaki, Y. Nagashima, N. Kasuya, Y. Kosuga in Research Center for Plasma Turbulence for their cooperation for the works introduced in the article. This work was partly supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Nos. JP17H06089, JP23246162, JP16K13921, JP23360409, and NIFS Collaboration Research program NIFS17KNWP006.
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PY - 2018/8/1
Y1 - 2018/8/1
N2 - Plasma turbulence has been intensively studied in the research of magnetic confinement for realizing a nuclear fusion reactor, and the international research has provided various discoveries of and physics insights into turbulent plasmas, such as turbulence-driven transport, effects of electric field on confinement, generation of flows and fields, and so on, although the research has been performed with a strong weight on achieving fusion-relevant performance plasma. However, at present a project to construct a physics-oriented device, named PLAsma Turbulence Observatory (PLATO), in Kyushu University, aiming at essential physics understanding of turbulent plasmas. The article reviews the major physics achievements up to data, and the steps to reach the concept of a new toroidal device with the major purpose for physics understanding of plasma turbulence.
AB - Plasma turbulence has been intensively studied in the research of magnetic confinement for realizing a nuclear fusion reactor, and the international research has provided various discoveries of and physics insights into turbulent plasmas, such as turbulence-driven transport, effects of electric field on confinement, generation of flows and fields, and so on, although the research has been performed with a strong weight on achieving fusion-relevant performance plasma. However, at present a project to construct a physics-oriented device, named PLAsma Turbulence Observatory (PLATO), in Kyushu University, aiming at essential physics understanding of turbulent plasmas. The article reviews the major physics achievements up to data, and the steps to reach the concept of a new toroidal device with the major purpose for physics understanding of plasma turbulence.
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U2 - 10.1063/1.5048721
DO - 10.1063/1.5048721
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85051963674
SN - 9780735417090
T3 - AIP Conference Proceedings
BT - Front-runners' Symposium on Plasma Physics in Honor of Professors Kimitaka Itoh and Sanae-I. Itoh
A2 - Todo, Yasushi
A2 - Ida, Katsumi
PB - American Institute of Physics Inc.
T2 - Front-runners� Symposium on Plasma Physics in Honor of Professors Kimitaka Itoh and Sanae-I. Itoh, 2018
Y2 - 11 January 2018
ER -