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With ITER's first full power fusion operation scheduled for 2035, it is essential to perfect and understand the mechanisms of some promising operational regimes, as well as understand their scalability to future reactors.
The EDA H-mode regime, originally discovered at MIT’s Alcator C-mod tokamak and recently at the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak at the Max-Plank institute for plasma physics, has proven to be a promising regime for future fusion reactors. This unique operating regime, which possesses a desirable set of characteristics not present in any other regime to date, has the potential to be a valuable tool in the attempt to attain economically viable fusion in next-generation reactors, but there is still a lot to be learned about the regime.
The principal aim of this project is to localize an edge instability whose presence is essential for the achievement of the regime, with the objective of testing its scalability to future reactors.
