Plasma Disruptions
A special issue of Plasma (ISSN 2571-6182).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 3262
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In tokamaks, instabilities can develop under certain operational conditions or as a consequence to a loss of control, causing the plasma to disrupt. The rapid release of the energy stored in the plasma during a disruption has the potential to cause surface melting of plasma-facing components and will cause high electromagnetic loads. The success of future tokamaks will depend on establishing reliable and effective strategies to predict and avoid disruptions and, as a last resource, to mitigate disruptions. Significant effort has been devoted to understanding the causes of disruptions and developing tools for their avoidance and mitigation, as well as to characterizing disruption loads and developing designs compatible with a spectrum of possible disruption outcomes through the life of the device.
Dr. Valeria Riccardo
Guest Editor
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