TFTR - US Fusion Power

TFTR 1973-2003

Perspectives on the TFTR DT Experiments, PPPL Experimental Seminar, May 23, 2014

TFTR Time Line - Dale Meade (this is a .pptx with hyperlinks, Play "TFTR_Time_Line_Meade_2014.pptx" and click on links, keep all files in one folder)
Preparing for DT on TFTR - Richard Hawryluk
The First DT Experiments in TFTR: Planning and Operational Perspectives - Michael Bell
Audio file of shot 76778, Fusion power = 9.3 MW for PNB = 29.2 MW, Fusion energy/pulse = 6. 5 MJ climaxing with an impressive disruption.
Implications of TFTR DT Experiments - Richard Hawryluk
Video of the Seminar - Download the slides before watching the video since the slides are not clear in the video.

Additional Perspectives on the TFTR DT Experiment

Tritium Retention in TFTR Prepared by the D-T Materials Physics Collaboration- H. F. Dylla and K. L. Wilson and , PPPL Report-2523 and SAND report 88-8212 (April 1998).
R.Nygren/Sandia comments
DT Diagnostics
Tritium Neutral Beams
TFTR Related Videos - e.g., First Plasma, First DT plasmas, Video News Releases November 5, 2014

TFTR Operating Experience with Tritium - Video Conference with ITER Tritium June 24, 2014

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TFTR Contributions at Major Scientific Meetings Since October 1996

3rd European Workshop on Radial Electric Fields, June 2000
APS-DPP Meeting, Seattle, November 1999
APS Centennial Meeting, Atlanta, March 1999
APS-DPP Meeting, New Orleans, Nov. 1998
17th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference, Yokohama, Oct. 1998
European Physical Society / ICCP Meeting, June 29 - July 3, 1998
Workshop on "Tritium Experience in Large Tokamaks; Applications to ITER", March 16-18, 1998
APS-DPP Meeting, Pittsburgh, Nov. 1997
European Physical Society Meeting, Jun. 9-13, 1997
APS-DPP Meeting, Denver, Nov. 1996
16th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference, Montreal, Oct. 1996

• General Talks on the TFTR project

M.G. Bell: "TFTR: What we learned and yet may learn" [Oct. 1998]
M.G. Bell "Core Transport Reduction in Tokamak Plasmas with Modified Magnetic Shear" [July 1998]
M.G. Bell: "Progress in Tokamak Physics during the TFTR Project" [Feb. 1998]
R.J. Hawryluk: "Experiments On TFTR: A Twenty Year Retrospective" [Nov. 1997]
R.J. Goldston: Physics of Advanced Steady-State Tokamaks [APS 1995]
M.C. Zarnstorff: Transport and Stability in Reversed Shear Plasmas in TFTR [APS 1995]
K.M. McGuire: Review of D-T Results from TFTR [APS 1994]

• Other TFTR Publications