Y. Gribov

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: The progress in the ITER Physics Basis (PIPB) document as discussed by the authors is an update of the IPB, which was published in 1999 [1], and provides methodologies for projecting the performance of burning plasmas, developed largely through coordinated experimental, modelling and theoretical activities carried out on today's large tokamaks (ITER Physics R&D).

TL;DR: Although the physics basis of plasma operation and control is similar in ITER and present tokamaks, there is a principal qualitative difference and significant progress has been achieved in the plasma performance control during the last few years.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present new results of transport simulations fully consistent with the final ITER design that remain within allowed limits for the coil system and power supplies, and increase their confidence in meeting the challenges of the ITER program.

TL;DR: The results of the first stage in a comprehensive validation by numerical simulation of newly-proposed scenarios or controllers of plasma current, position and shape developed for ITER are described.