High-confinement mode
High-confinement mode or H-mode is an operating mode possible in toroidal magnetic confinement fusion devices - mostly tokamaks but also in stellarators.[1] In this mode the plasma is more stable and better confined.
It was discovered by Fritz Wagner in 1982 during neutral beam heating of the plasma at ASDEX.[1]
ITER is planned to operate in H-mode.
See also
- Edge-localized mode, an instability of H-mode
- Joint European Torus (JET) operates in H-mode
- COMPASS tokamak can/could operate in H-mode
- KSTAR (South Korea) operates in H-mode
References
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