Operational experience on ECRF system in JT-60U and development for JT-60SA

Moriyama, Shinichi; Kobayashi, Takayuki; Isayama, Akihiko; Yokokura, Kenji; Shimono, Mitsugu; Hasegawa, Koichi; Sawahata, Masayuki; Suzuki, Sadaaki; Terakado, Masayuki; Hiranai, Shinichi; Sato, Fumiaki; Wada, Kenji; Hinata, Jun; Sato, Yoshikatsu; Ozeki, Masahiro; Hoshino, Katsumichi

As a result of inspection of the ECRF antennas after the JT-60U operation, no large damages were found on them although the color of the mirror surfaces were slightly changed probably due to coating of thin film and some evidences of arcing were found. In the statistical analysis on the 9-year operation of the ECRF system, the success rate, which is defined as the ratio of actual injection time to preprogrammed one was higher than 0.85 in the last 3 years of the operation in average of 4 lines. To meet the long-pulse requirement of JT-60SA, development of long-pulse gyrotron with improved mode converter is on going aiming at 1 MW, 100 s. It was confirmed that the diffraction loss was remarkably decreased and the temperature of the DC break cooling water, which limited the pulse length, was saturated at about half of that before the improvement. As the result, the pulse length reached 17 s at 1 MW, and 30 s at 0.6 MW (18 MJ) recently, and further conditioning will be continued.