Abstract
During the past year, the research activities on TFTR have encompassed three broad areas. The first was to extend the operating range of TFTR. Plasma currents up to 1.5 MA were achieved in discharges with a = 0.83 m, R = 2.55 m at a toroidal field of 2.7 T. In these large plasmas, the maximum line average density was 3.35 x 10/sup 19/ m/sup -3/. The second activity was a study of the scaling of the energy confinement time, tau/sub E/, in ohmically heated discharges as a function of plasma current, density, and plasma size. These experiments indicate a favorable scaling of tau/sub E/ with size and density. Energy confinement times in excess of 0.25 s were obtained in deuterium discharges. The third activity was a study of adiabatic compression. During compression, the plasma current and ion temperature scaled approximately as predicted; however, the electron temperature and density scaled less strongly than predicted for ideal compression.
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