Progress in technology and experiment of superconducting tokamaks in ASIPP

  • Baonian Wan
  • , Jiangang Li
  • , Yican Wu

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Abstract

The Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IPP/CAS or ASIPP) has EAST in shaped plasma configuration and HT-7 with circular cross-section. Both machines focus on the investigation of some critical issues relating to steady-state and high performance plasma operation. Significant progress in developing technologies for long pulse operation, including CW heating and current drive, plasma control, actively water cooled in-vessel components, PFC material, wall conditioning, etc. has been achieved both in EAST and HT-7. These technologies enable significant extension of both plasma pulse length and plasma performance. EAST will be equipped with sufficient heating and current drive power in next few years for steady-state high performance plasma research. It provides unique opportunity for development of key fusion technologies and materials. The progress and future plan of TBM research on EAST is also reported.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1048-1053
Number of pages6
JournalFusion Engineering and Design
Volume85
Issue number7-9
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2010

Keywords

  • Long pulse plasma discharge
  • Superconducting tokamka
  • TBM

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