Inverting Fusion Plasmas Improves Performance (IMAGE)
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Negative triangularity shaping in the DIII-D tokamak (left) produced plasmas with no observed instabilities for triangularities less than approximately -0.15, even at high heating power and core performance (right).
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Image courtesy of A.O. Nelson et al., Robust Avoidance of Edge-Localized Modes alongside Gradient Formation in the Negative Triangularity Tokamak Edge. Physical Review Letters 131, 195101 (2023).
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Image courtesy of A.O. Nelson et al., Robust Avoidance of Edge-Localized Modes alongside Gradient Formation in the Negative Triangularity Tokamak Edge. Physical Review Letters 131, 195101 (2023).
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