Negative Triangularity Tokamaks: A power plant plasma solution from the core to the edge?
In recent years, the fusion community has focused on engineering tokamak power plants, highlighting the challenge of power exhaust—extracting fusion energy without damaging components. Negative triangularity plasma shaping offers a promising solution. Negative triangularity involves flipping the standard plasma shape so the triangle points inward. This shape has been shown to significantly improve energy confinement and prevent the transition to H-mode, avoiding issues like edge localized modes (ELMs) and narrow scrape-off layers (SOLs). However, uncertainty remains as no tokamak is designed for negative triangularity, and it has received limited theoretical attention. This webinar will explore the potential of negative triangularity as a power plant solution.