The Compact Ignition Tokamak and electron cyclotron heating: Description of need; assessment of prospects

Technical Report · Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1989

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6433352· OSTI ID:6433352

Ignat, D W; Cohn, D R; Woskov, P P

The CIT will benefit from auxiliary heating of 10 to 40 MW. The schedules of both the CIT construction project and the operating plan contain adequate time to develop and implement ECH systems based on the gyrotron and the induction free electron laser (IFEL). Each approach has advantages and is the object of R and D at the level of many millions of dollars per year. While the gyrotron is further advanced in terms of power and pulse length achieved, rapid progress is scheduled for the IFEL, including experiments on tokamaks. Plans of CIT, gyrotron, and IFEL make 1992 an appropriate time frame to commit to one or both systems. 12 refs., 8 figs., 2 tabs.

• Research Organization: Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH03073
• OSTI ID: 6433352
• Report Number(s): PPPL-2584; ON: TI89006876; TRN: 89-005661
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Portions of this document are illegible in microfiche products
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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