Southwestern Institute of Physics

The HL-2M tokamak is a midsize research tokamak designed to study high performance plasmas. Key areas of focus in the design are heating, control, diagnostic and advanced diverter configurations which are relevant to ITER.

It is a modification of the HL-2A tokamak but given the major changes it is essentially a new machine which will reuse many subsystems from HL-2A (which itself was a built from components of the ASDEX tokamak).

The HL-2m is expected to begin operation in 2020.

HL-3

2020 - Present

Southwestern Institute of Physics (SWIP)

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Publications

High-heat-flux performance of monoblock target prepared with advanced W-K plate

Magnetic topology discontinuous changes and discrete shifts of divertor heat flux induced by edge-localized modes in the HL-2A tokamak

Integrated modelling of electron cyclotron wave control of core impurity accumulation in HL-3 tokamak

Linear and quasi-linear plasma response to resonant magnetic perturbations during ELM mitigation in HL-3

Density limit experiments and core-localized kinetic ballooning modes in HL-2A ohmic heating plasmas

Integrated framework for unstable event identification of disruption on the HL-3 tokamak

Modeling the effects of carbon impurity transport and E×B drift on detachment cliff in the HL-3 open X-divertor by SOLPS-ITER

Direction-resolved synthetic DD neutron spectra based on arbitrary fast-ion distributions for the HL-3 tokamak

Simulations of SMBI on High-Field and Low-Field Sides of the HL-2A Tokamak

Structural integrity analysis of glovebox as the secondary confinement barrier in fusion reactor projects

Projects

HL-1M

HL-2A

HL-2M

HL-3