This report consists of two main research activities ： The first one is the study of MHD ballooning stability of tokamak plasmas, the second is about some fundamental aspect in the ECR wave propagation and power deposition. Main results are summarized here in three parts briefly. In the first part, the instabilities of tokamak plasma in the negative shear regime is studied and characteristics of the unstable mode is described, the scaling law of the growth rate over plasma parameters is given. In the second part, by using the restrict Solov＇ev configuration, the correctness of the usual s,α model in ballooning mode theory is analyzed. In the third part, the deposition of the power density of the ECR ordinary wave in the HL-2A plasma is calculated.
High n （ the toroidal mode number） ballooning mode analysis is generally thought to be the most fundamental tool for the study of the magnetohydrodynamic （MHD） stability in magnetically confinement toroidal fusion devices. Very recently, new interest on ballooning mode study is put on the internal transport barrier （ITB） phenomena, an improved confinement structure characterized by a central negative shear region and a much smaller energy transport region near the minimum of q.
The magnetic fusion reactor using the advanced D-3He fuels has the advantage of much less-neutron productions so that the consequent damages to the first wall are less serious. If the establishment of this kind of reactor becomes realistic, the exploration of 3He on the moon will be largely motivated. Based on recent progresses in the spherical torus (ST) research, we have physically designed a D-3He fusion reactor using the extrapolated results from the ST experiments and also the present-day tokamak scaling. It is found that the reactor size significantly depends on the wall reflection coefficient of the synchrotron radiation and of the impurity contaminations. The secondary reaction between D-D that promptly leads to the D-T reaction producing 14 MeV neutrons is also estimated. Comparison of this D-3He ST reactor with the D-T reactor is made.
A ballooning mode equation for tokamak plasma, with the toroidicity and the Shafranov shift effects included, is derived for a shift circular flux tokamak configuration. Using this equation, the stability of the plasma configuration with an internal transport barrier （ITB） against the high n （the toroidal mode number） ideal magnetohydrodynamic （MHD） ballooning mode is analysed. It is shown that both the toroidicity and the Shaftanov shift effects are stabilizing. In the ITB region, these effects give rise to a low shear stable channel between the first and the second stability regions. Out of the ITB region towards the plasma edge, the stabilizing effect of the Shaftanov shift causes the unstable zone to be significantly narrowed.
