Startup and Shutdown of the PULSAR Tokamak Reactor†
Fusion Science and Technology / Volume 26 / Number 3P2 / November 1994 / Pages 582-587
Plasma Heating and Current Drive, Plasma Engineering / Proceedings of the Eleventh Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy New Orleans, Louisiana June 19-23, 1994 / dx.doi.org/10.13182/FST94-A40220
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Startup conditions are examined for a pulsed tokamak reactor that uses only inductive plasma current drive for startup, burn and shutdown. A zero-dimensional (profile-averaged) model that describes plasma power and particle balance equations is used to study several aspects of plasma startup and shutdown, including optimization of the startup pathway tradeoff of auxiliary startup heating power versus startup time, volt-second consumtion, thermal stability and partial-power operations.
