E. Lazzaro

TL;DR: A review of recent advances in the area of MHD stability and disruptions, since the publication of the 1999 ITER Physics Basis document (1999 Nucl. Fusion 39 2137-2664), is reviewed in this paper.

TL;DR: Experiments in the JET tokamak with additional heating power above 5 MW show that the plasma can undergo a transition to a new regime and an improvement in the glogal energy confinement time of up to 20% is observed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed the 2014-2016 JET results in the light of their significance for optimising the ITER research plan for the active and non-active operation, stressing the importance of the magnetic configurations and the recent measurements of fine-scale structures in the edge radial electric.

TL;DR: The role of rational q surfaces in ITB triggering stresses the importance of q profile control for an advanced tokamak scenario and could assist in substantially lowering the access power to these scenarios in next step facilities as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the mechanisms of nonlinear interaction of external helical fields with a rotating plasma are investigated analyzing the results of recent systematic experiments on the Joint European Torus (JET) [A. Gibson et al., Phys. Plasmas 5, 1839 (1998)] that widen the previous data base collected on Compass-D.