EUROfusion Glossary

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Glossary Term: Pellet injection

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Fuelling a plasma by firing into it a stream of small pellets of frozen material (e.g. deuterium) at high velocity. The injection of pellets can also be used to trigger ELMs; this ELM pacing process is used to release energy in small bursts rather than a build-up followed by a large disruption.