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The dependence was studied of the level of density fluctuations recorded at different devices on the minor and major radii of the tokamak. It is known that a high level of density fluctuations can negatively affect the operation of diagnostics, in particular, the plasma reflectometry diagnostic. The increase of density fluctuations decreases the quality of raw data by increasing the error of measuring the density profile and, when density fluctuations exceed the threshold value, it renders such measurements impossible. Based on experimental data obtained on devices with substantially different sizes, a dependence of the density fluctuation level on the major and minor tokamak radii was proposed. Since the main experiments were carried out in round limiter tokamaks in ohmic (OH) heating regimes, the extrapolation result is applicable, generally speaking, to installations of larger size with the same configuration and regimes. However, experiments with electron cyclotron heating at the T-10 tokamak also allow one to extend the obtained dependence to regimes with auxiliary heating. It was shown that the obtained dependence is applicable to limiter tokamaks Tore Supra and TFTR of larger size. The applicability of the dependence to installations with diverter configuration is discussed and the possible level of density fluctuations is extrapolated to the international reactor tokamak ITER that is being constructed in France.
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This work was carried out for the contract of NRC Kurchatov Institute with SC Rosatom no. 1/19876-D from 27.07.2020. The analysis of results for the FT-2 tokamak was supported by the Russian Science Foundation, grant no. 17-12-01110. The database of the FT-2 tokamak used in this work was developed and it is supported in the framework of the state contract of the Ioffe Institute.
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Vershkov, V.A., Shelukhin, D.A., Subbotin, G.F. et al. Multi-machine Scaling of the Amplitude of Density Fluctuations from the Size of the Tokamak. Plasma Phys. Rep. 47, 637–646 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063780X2107014X
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