作者
Yuntao Song,X. L. Zou,Xianzu Gong,A. Bécoulet,R. J. Buttery,P. T. Bonoli,T. Hoang,R. Maingi,Jinping Qian,Xing Zhong,A.D. Liu,Erzhong Li,Rui Ding,J. Huang,Qing Zang,Haiqing Liu,Liang Wang,Ling Zhang,G. Li,Yuan Sun,A. M. Garofalo,T.H. Osborne,A. W. Leonard,Seung Gyou Baek,G. M. Wallace,Liqing Xu,Bin Zhang,Shouxin Wang,Yuqi Chu,Tao Zhang,Yanmin Duan,H. Lian,Xuexi Zhang,Yifei Jin,Long Zeng,Bo Lyu,B. J. Xiao,Yao Huang,Yong Wang,Biao Shen,Nong Xiang,Yu Wu,Ji Wu,Xiaojie Wang,Bojiang Ding,Miaohui Li,Xinjun Zhang,Chengming Qin,Xi Wang,Jian Zhang,Liansheng Huang,Damao Yao,Yanlan Hu,Guizhong Zuo,Q.P. Yuan,Zhiwei Zhou,M. Wang,Handong Xu,Yahong Xie,Zhengchu Wang,Jun-ling Chen,G. S. Xu,Jiansheng Hu,Kun Lü,Fukun Liu,WU Xin-chao,Baonian Wan,Jiangang Li
摘要
Mastering nuclear fusion, which is an abundant, safe, and environmentally competitive energy, is a great challenge for humanity. Tokamak represents one of the most promising paths toward controlled fusion. Obtaining a high-performance, steady-state, and long-pulse plasma regime remains a critical issue. Recently, a big breakthrough in steady-state operation was made on the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST). A steady-state plasma with a world-record pulse length of 1056 s was obtained, where the density and the divertor peak heat flux were well controlled, with no core impurity accumulation, and a new high-confinement and self-organizing regime (Super I-mode = I-mode + e-ITB) was discovered and demonstrated. These achievements contribute to the integration of fusion plasma technology and physics, which is essential to operate next-step devices.