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Initial plasma results from the Electric Tokamak*

R.J. Taylor, J.-L. Gauvreau, M. Gilmore, P.-A. Gourdain, D.J. LaFonteese, L.W. Schmitz2002年被引用 18Nuclear FusionIF 3出版社

The Electric Tokamak, a low field ITER sized device with R = 5 m, has been operating with well equilibrated clean plasmas since January 2000. Short, 0.9 s, discharges with a central energy confinement time τE(0) = 150 ms are now routinely obtained at a toroidal field B = 0.1 T with kTe, kTi≃120 eV. The discharges are feedback controlled in up/down position and in plasma current. Biased electrode driven H modes have been obtained that compare well with the results obtained on CCT by R.J. Taylor and align with the `neoclassical bifurcation' theory of K.C. Shaing. Very successful second harmonic ion heating has been demonstrated with the ICRF antenna outside the vacuum system and with 50% single pass absorption. ICRF heated discharges indicate that poloidal rotation sufficient for edge bifurcation (H mode) may soon be achieved by ICRF induced fast ion losses. The threshold electrode biasing current required for bifurcated poloidal rotation has so far been reduced by 70% owing to ICRH driven ion orbit loss. The remaining critical ICRF item needed for the exploration of high beta plasma equilibria is the demonstration of the required current profile shaping. It is expected that mode conversion in the ion-ion hybrid regime, with high field side launch, will allow the current drive required to approach and exceed the Troyon beta limit. In 1-D full wave calculations, high harmonic current drive appears most promising at higher beta. Achieving the goal of plasma equilibration near unity beta will require 10 s long discharges (at kT = 3 keV, ne = 3×1019 m-3, B = 0.25 T) because of current profile shaping requirements.

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