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Tokamak Power Exhaust with the Snowflake Divertor: Present Results and Outstanding Issues

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A snowflake divertor magnetic configuration (Ryutov in Phys Plasmas 14(6):064502, 2007) with the second-order poloidal field null offers a number of possible advantages for tokamak plasma heat and particle exhaust in comparison with the standard poloidal divertor with the first-order null. Results from snowflake divertor experiments are briefly reviewed and future directions for research in this area are outlined.

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Dr. D. D. Ryutov is acknowledged for helpful discussions. This work is supported by the US Department of Energy under DE-AC5207NA27344.

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Soukhanovskii, V.A., Xu, X. Tokamak Power Exhaust with the Snowflake Divertor: Present Results and Outstanding Issues. J Fusion Energ 35, 31–33 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10894-015-9999-z

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