Kyoto University contribution on tokamaks – RF heating and current drive on WT-2 tokamak

In the WT-2 tokamak at Kyoto University,lower hybrid and electron cyclotron waves have been applied separately or in combination to initiate or to maintain a toroidal plasma current, and a tokamak plasma was formed by RF only without OH power. Electron cyclotron waves have also been applied to suppress an anisotropy-driven instability that appears in plasmas with LH-driven current.