M. R. Tournianski

TL;DR: The first six months of MAST operations have been remarkably successful as discussed by the authors, with a plasma current of over 1 MA with central plasma temperatures (ohmic) of order 1 keV.

TL;DR: The Wendelstein 7-X superconducting device is currently under construction in Greifswald, Germany as mentioned in this paper, where the electron cyclotron resonance heating system, diagnostics, experiment control and data acquisition are prepared for steady-state operation lasting 30 min.

TL;DR: In this article, a combination of state-of-the-art imaging and profile diagnostics, together with established plasma simulation codes, are providing for the first time on Mega Ampere Spherical Tokamak (MAST) the tools required for studying confinement and transport, from the core through to the plasma edge and scrape-off-layer (SOL).

TL;DR: The 19th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference, Lyon, France, 17-20 October 2002 as discussed by the authors, was the first event dedicated to the development of fusion energy and its applications.

TL;DR: A high-energy tail is observed in the ion-distribution function following each internal reconnection event in Ohmic discharges, explained in terms of runaway ion acceleration in the electric field induced by the reconnection.