Noninductive current drive and steady-state operation in JT-60U

JT-60Uにおける非誘導電流駆動と定常運転

牛草 健吉; 井手 俊介; 及川 聡洋; 鈴木 隆博; 鎌田 裕; 藤田 隆明; 池田 佳隆; 内藤 磨; 松岡 守*; 近藤 貴; 諫山 明彦; 関 正美; 今井 剛; 坂本 慶司; 梅田 尚孝; 濱松 清隆; 藤井 常幸; 上原 和也; 山本 巧; 三浦 幸俊; 菊池 満; 栗山 正明; 二宮 博正

Ushigusa, Kenkichi; Ide, Shunsuke; Oikawa, Toshihiro; Suzuki, Takahiro; Kamada, Yutaka; Fujita, Takaaki; Ikeda, Yoshitaka; Naito, Osamu; Matsuoka, Mamoru*; Kondoh, Takashi; Isayama, Akihiko; Seki, Masami; Imai, Tsuyoshi; Sakamoto, Keishi; Umeda, Naotaka; Hamamatsu, Kiyotaka; Fujii, Tsuneyuki; Uehara, Kazuya; Yamamoto, Takumi; Miura, Yukitoshi; Kikuchi, Mitsuru; Kuriyama, Masaaki; Ninomiya, Hiromasa

JT-60における非誘導電流駆動及び高性能定常運転に関する研究成果をまとめた。低域混成波電流駆動(LHCD)により3.5MAの大電流駆動,3.61019m-2A/Wの高効率電流駆動,自在な電流分布制御性を実証した。近接条件,高速電子挙動等の基礎研究によりLHCD物理の解明に貢献した。負イオン源中性粒子ビーム電流駆動(N-NBCD)実験により、中性粒子ビーム電流駆動に関する研究を著しく進展させた。駆動効率1.51019m-2A/Wを達成し、1MAの電流駆動に成功した。弱磁場励起Oモード電子サイクロトロン波による局所電流駆動を実証し、駆動効率0.51019m-2A/W,0.2MAの電流駆動を達成するとともに、新古典テアリング不安定性の抑制に成功した。これらの成果に基づき、高pHモード及び負磁気シアプラズマという2つの高性能定常運転方式を開発した。これらの運転方式は、高い閉じ込め性能を有するほぼ定常状態の電流分布を完全電流駆動の状態で持続できるものである。高い規格化密度や高い核融合積を有する完全電流駆動高性能定常運転方式で達成した。

Studies on non-inductive current drive and development of an integrated steady-state high performance operation in JT-60 are reviewed. Experiments on lower hybrid current drive in JT-60 haven shown a large non-inductive current up to 3.5MA, high current drive efficiency of 3.6x1019m-2A/W. Basic studies on LH waves in JT-60 have contributed to understand current drive physics. Significant progress in neutral beam current drive has been made in JT-60 by testing the performance of negative ion based NBI (N-NBI). The CD efficiency of ~1.5x1019m-2A /W, and N-NB driven current of ~1MA have been demonstrated in N-NBCD. Strongly localized driven current by electron cyclotron current drive was identified with a fundamental O-mode scheme. Efficiency of 0.5x1019m-2A/W and EC driven current of 0.2MA were achieved and suppression of neo-classical tearing mode was demonstrated. Based on these developments, two integrated steady-state operation scenarios were developed in JT-60, which are reversed magnetic shear (R/S) plasmas and high bp ELMy H-mode. In these operation regimes, discharges have been sustained near the steady-state current profile under full non-inductive current drive. High performance plasmas with a high nDotETio and at high normalized density were also produced under fully non-inductive condition in high bp ELMy H-mode and R/S mode.