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Plasma and Fusion Research

Volume 6, 2102149 (2011)

Review Articles

Recent Fusion Research in the National Institute for Fusion Science
Akio KOMORI, Satoru SAKAKIBARA, Akio SAGARA, Ritoku HORIUCHI, Hiroshi YAMADA, Yasuhiko TAKEIRI and NIFS Team
National Institute for Fusion Science, Toki 509-5292, Japan
(Received 13 July 2011 / Accepted 19 October 2011 / Published 2 December 2011)

Abstract

The National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS), which was established in 1989, promotes academic approaches toward the exploration of fusion science for steady-state helical reactor and realizes the establishment of a comprehensive understanding of toroidal plasmas as an inter-university research organization and a key center of worldwide fusion research. The Large Helical Device (LHD) Project, the Numerical Simulation Science Project, and the Fusion Engineering Project are organized for early realization of net current free fusion reactor, and their recent activities are described in this paper. The LHD has been producing high-performance plasmas comparable to those of large tokamaks, and several new findings with regard to plasma physics have been obtained. The numerical simulation science project contributes understanding and systemization of the physical mechanisms of plasma confinement in fusion plasmas and explores complexity science of a plasma for realization of the numerical test reactor. In the fusion engineering project, the design of the helical fusion reactor has progressed based on the development of superconducting coils, the blanket, fusion materials and tritium handling.

Keywords

NIFS, LHD, heliotron, simulation, fusion engineering, helical reactor

DOI: 10.1585/pfr.6.2102149

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This paper may be cited as follows:

Akio KOMORI, Satoru SAKAKIBARA, Akio SAGARA, Ritoku HORIUCHI, Hiroshi YAMADA, Yasuhiko TAKEIRI and NIFS Team, Plasma Fusion Res. 6, 2102149 (2011).