Analysis of non-inductive current drive from ECCD and bootstrap on T-10

Conference · Tue Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 1991

OSTI ID:6130432

Lohr, J; Harvey, R W; Luce, T C; Petty, C C ^[1]; James, R A ^[2]; Alikaev, V V; Bagdasarov, A A; Borshchegovsky, A A; Esipchuk, Y V; Gorelov, Y A; Pimenov, A B; Razumova, K A; Roi, I N; Trukhin, V M; Vasin, N L ^[3]

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1. General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)
2. Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States)
3. Kurchatov Inst. of Atomic Energy, Moscow (USSR)

The combination of electron cyclotron current drive and the bootstrap effect has produced completely non-inductively driven current of 75kA for up to 200 msec in the T-10 tokamak. At higher values of plasma current I{sub p} {approximately} 175kA, I{sub p} {ge} 60kA was maintained by ECCD. These experiments have been modeled with the coupled ray training and transport codes TORAY and ONETWO. Within the uncertainties in the experimental data, the calculations show that the sum of bootstrap and ECCD substantially exceeded the net programmed plasma current. 2 figs.

• Research Organization: General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE; SOVFUS; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-89ER51114; W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 6130432
• Report Number(s): GA-A-20647; CONF-910869-26; ON: DE92002950
• Resource Relation: Conference: 9. topical conference on radio frequency power in plasmas, Charleston, SC (United States), 19-21 Aug 1991
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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