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Long Duration Confinement

Sustaining H-mode plasma confinement beyond 300 seconds with acceptable energy loss. Current record is ~1000s in tokamaks but not at reactor-relevant parameters.

Research Domains

plasma physicsheating systems

Keywords

H-modeconfinement timesteady-statecurrent drivebootstrap current

Last updated: April 7, 2026

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