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AKE: Arbeitskreis Energie

AKE 3: Kernfusion

AKE 3.2: Invited Talk

Monday, March 15, 2010, 17:15–17:45, JUR D

The physics base for ITER and DEMO - status and challenges — •Hartmut Zohm — MPI für Plasmaphysik, D-85748 Garching, Germany, EURATOM Association

Over the last decade, the world-wide Fusion Research programme has made large progress in establishing the physics base for future reactor-grade magnetic fusion experiments such as ITER and DEMO. Since in several areas, our understanding does not yet allow extrapolation from first principles to predict comprehensively the behaviour of a hot fusion plasma, semi-empirical scaling laws based on databases from a wide range of devices are being used to predict the performance of these devices

The contribution will highlight those phyiscs areas (such as confinement, control of fusion plasmas, plasma edge and exhaust physics) which are particularly important for the design and the performance of burning fusion devices and address the status of research in the different areas. Based on this, an outline of future investigations and their possible impact on reactor designs will be presented.