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Corrections to the paper 'electron cyclotron current drive calculated for ITER conditions using different models' (2008 Nucl. Fusion 48 054002)
Extended estimations of neoclassical transport for the TJ-II stellarator: The bootstrap current
Properties of a new quasi-axisymmetric configuration
A novel, compact, quasi-axisymmetric configuration is presented which
exhibits low fast-particle losses and is stable to ideal MHD instabilities. The
design has fast-particle loss rates below 8\% for flux surfaces within the
half-radius, and is shown to have an MHD-stability limit of a normalised
pressure of where is volume
averaged. The flux surfaces at various plasma betas and currents as calculated
using the SPEC equilibrium code are presented. Neoclassical transport
coefficients are shown to be similar to an equivalent tokamak, with a distinct
banana regime at half-radius. An initial coil design study is presented to
assess the feasibility of this configuration as a fusion-relevant experiment
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