Realization of minute-long steady-state H-mode discharges on EAST

Xianzu GONG (龚先祖); Baonian WAN (万宝年); Jiangang LI (李建刚); Jinping QIAN (钱金平); Erzhong LI (李二众); Fukun LIU (刘甫坤); Yanping ZHAO (赵燕平); Mao WANG (王茂); Handong XU (徐旵东); A M GAROFALO; Annika EKEDAH; Siye DING (丁斯晔); Juan HUANG (黄娟); Ling ZHANG (张凌); Qing ZANG (臧庆); Haiqing LIU (刘海庆); Long ZENG (曾龙); Shiyao LIN (林士耀); Biao SHEN (沈飙); Bin ZHANG (张斌); Linming SHAO (邵林明); Bingjia XIAO (肖炳甲); Jiansheng HU (胡建生); Chundong HU (胡纯栋); Liqun HU (胡立群); Liang WANG (王亮); Youwen SUN (孙有文); Guosheng XU (徐国盛); Yunfeng LIANG (梁云峰); Nong XIANG (项农); EAST Team

doi:10.1088/2058-6272/19/3/032001

Plasma Science and Technology > 2017 > 19(3): 32001-032001. > DOI: 10.1088/2058-6272/19/3/032001

Xianzu GONG (龚先祖), Baonian WAN (万宝年), Jiangang LI (李建刚), Jinping QIAN (钱金平), Erzhong LI (李二众), Fukun LIU (刘甫坤), Yanping ZHAO (赵燕平), Mao WANG (王茂), Handong XU (徐旵东), A M GAROFALO, Annika EKEDAH, Siye DING (丁斯晔), Juan HUANG (黄娟), Ling ZHANG (张凌), Qing ZANG (臧庆), Haiqing LIU (刘海庆), Long ZENG (曾龙), Shiyao LIN (林士耀), Biao SHEN (沈飙), Bin ZHANG (张斌), Linming SHAO (邵林明), Bingjia XIAO (肖炳甲), Jiansheng HU (胡建生), Chundong HU (胡纯栋), Liqun HU (胡立群), Liang WANG (王亮), Youwen SUN (孙有文), Guosheng XU (徐国盛), Yunfeng LIANG (梁云峰), Nong XIANG (项农), EAST Team. Realization of minute-long steady-state H-mode discharges on EAST[J]. Plasma Science and Technology, 2017, 19(3): 32001-032001. DOI: 10.1088/2058-6272/19/3/032001

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Realization of minute-long steady-state H-mode discharges on EAST

1 Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, People’s Republic of China 2 General Atomics, San Diego, CA 92186-5608, United States of America 3 CEA, IRFM, F-13108 Saint Paul-lez-Durance, France

Funds: This work was supported by the National Magnetic Confinement Fusion Program of China (Nos. 2015GB102000 and 2015GB103000).

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In the 2016 EAST experimental campaign, a steady-state long-pulse H-mode discharge with an ITER-like tungsten divertor lasting longer than one minute has been obtained using only RF heating and current drive, through an integrated control of the wall conditioning, plasma configuration, divertor heat flux, particle exhaust, impurity management, and effective coupling of multiple RF heating and current drive sources at high injected power. The plasma current (I_p ∼0.45 MA) was fully-noninductively driven (V_loop <0.0 V) by a combination of ∼2.5 MW LHW, ∼0.4 MW ECH and ∼0.8 MW ICRF. This result demonstrates the progress of physics and technology studies on EAST, and will benefit the physics basis for steady state operation of ITER and CFETR.
- long pulse steady state,
- RF heating,
- H-mode

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