Resonant magnetic perturbations
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Resonant magnetic perturbations (RMPs) are a special type of magnetic field perturbations used to control burning plasma instabilities called edge-localized modes (ELMs) in magnetic fusion devices such as tokamaks. The efficiency of RMPs for controlling ELMs was first demonstrated on the tokamak DIII-D in 2003.[1]
Normally the rippled magnetic field will only suppress ELMs for very narrow ranges of the plasma current.[2]
See also
- Plasma instability
- COMPASS tokamak
- NSTX-U, also uses RMPs to control ELMs
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