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Kamiya, Kensaku; Urano, Hajime; Koide, Yoshihiko; Takizuka, Tomonori; Oyama, Naoyuki; Kamada, Yutaka; JT-60 Team
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 48(5A), p.A131 - A139, 2006/05
Times Cited Count：22 Percentile：58.85(Physics, Fluids & Plasmas)Effects of plasma rotation and ripple loss on the Type-I ELMs have systematically studied in the JT-60U tokamak, scanning combinations of NBI at the three kinds of plasma volumes. New findings on the Type-I ELMs confirm to be smaller ELM energy loss per pedestal stored energy, DWELM/Wped, and faster ELM frequency, fELM, in the counter-NBI than co-NBI, keeping the power of ELM, PELM, per heating power crossing the separatrix, PSEP, constant. Balanced-NBI case is also intermediate between co- and counter-NBI. In addition, the product of PELM/PSEP decreases according to increase in the plasma volume, suggesting an increase in the inter-ELM transport due mainly to an enhancement in the ripple loss of fast ion.
Ide, Shunsuke; JT-60 Team
Plasma Science and Technology, 8(1), p.1 - 4, 2006/01
Times Cited Count：0 Percentile：0.01(Physics, Fluids & Plasmas)Recent progress in development of high performance plasma and efforts to prolong their sustainment towards ITER advanced operations and a steady-state reactor in JT-60U are presented focusing following achievements; 
N=3 sustained for 6.2s (
4.1tR) without NTMs in normal shear, fBS0.45 sustained for 5.8s (2.8tR) under nearly full CD in weak a shear plasma, fBS0.75 sustained for 7.4s (2.7tR) under nearly full CD in a reversed shear plasma. Furthermore, importance of these results and issues in advanced tokamak development will be discussed.
Ide, Shunsuke; JT-60 Team
Nuclear Fusion, 45(10), p.S48 - S62, 2005/10
Times Cited Count：53 Percentile：83.29(Physics, Fluids & Plasmas)no abstracts in English
Ikeda, Yoshitaka; Oikawa, Toshihiro; Ide, Shunsuke
Purazuma, Kaku Yugo Gakkai-Shi, 81(10), p.773 - 778, 2005/10
In steady-state tokamak fusion reactors, an efficient external current drive and a large fraction of the bootstrap current are required for non-inductive operation at low circulating power. NBI is a powerful and reliable actuator for current drive and heating. A negative ion-based NBI (N-NBI) with a high beam energy more than 350 keV has been installed in the JT-60U tokamak in order to study the NBI current drive and heating in an ITER relevant regime. This paper presents recent progress of N-NBI experiments and its system in JT-60U towards steady-state operation for ITER and tokamak fusion reactors.
Kawano, Yasunori; Nakano, Tomohide; Asakura, Nobuyuki; Tamai, Hiroshi; Isayama, Akihiko; Kondoh, Takashi; Hatae, Takaki; Takenaga, Hidenobu; Ide, Shunsuke
Purazuma, Kaku Yugo Gakkai-Shi, 81(10), p.743 - 744, 2005/10
Electron density of post-disruption runaway plasmas in JT-60U has been measured by the tangential CO
laser interferometer. Increases in electron density after the first drop of runaway plasma current have been observed during a fast termination phase of the runaway plasma. At the second current drop, an increase in electron density with multiple spikes or oscillation with the period of 1 ms has been found. It is suggested that the increased electron density seems to take part in the shorter current decay time after the second current drop.
Moriyama, Shinichi; Shinozaki, Shinichi
Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Part 1, 44(8), p.6224 - 6229, 2005/08
Times Cited Count：1 Percentile：4.7(Physics, Applied)The control system of RF heating system in JT-60U has been improved with a concept of dispersion processing and featuring a real time waveform shaping method. It is proper that the brand-new, dispersion processing system has higher performance and reliability than old single processor system before modification, however it is worthy of mention that improvement on operation roll sharing, using the real time waveform shaping, has enabled more efficient and smooth operation. The typical roll sharing is that a simple rectangular waveform of the RF heating power is set by the experiment operator, and the waveform is re-shaped with the parameter set by the RF operator who knows deeply the condition of the RF system at that time. The simple and flexible composition of the new control system will also enable further improvement of hardware to enhance plasma performance that is inevitable to the devices for fusion experiment.
Kajiwara, Ken*; Ikeda, Yoshitaka; Seki, Masami; Moriyama, Shinichi; Oikawa, Toshihiro; Fujii, Tsuneyuki; JT-60 Team
Nuclear Fusion, 45(7), p.694 - 705, 2005/07
Times Cited Count：60 Percentile：85.79(Physics, Fluids & Plasmas)Electron cyclotron heating (ECH) assisted start-up experiment was performed in JT-60U. The breakdown loop voltage, becoming the maximum value at the plasma start-up, successfully reduced from 30 V to 4 V (E = 0.26 V/m) by 200 kW ECH. This fulfills the value less than 0.3 V/m, which corresponds to the maximum electric field required in ITER. Moreover, in order to investigate properties of start-up plasmas, parameter scans of the ECH power, prefilled gas pressure, resonant position, polarization angle and injection position were carried out and the dependence on them were obtained. It was revealed that the properties have dependences on the injection position and polarization angle in large tokamaks although they seemed to have no dependence on them from the experiments in small and medium tokamaks. In addition, in experiments of the plasma start-up using second and third harmonic ECH, it was found that the plasma current was ramped by 800 kW second harmonic ECH and was not ramped by 1.6 MW third harmonic ECH even with 7 MW neutral beam injection heating.
-values in the ITB events in JT-60U reverse shear plasmasNeudatchin, S. V.*; Takizuka, Tomonori; Hayashi, Nobuhiko; Isayama, Akihiko; Shirai, Hiroshi; Fujita, Takaaki; Kamada, Yutaka; Koide, Yoshihiko; Suzuki, Takahiro
Nuclear Fusion, 44(9), p.945 - 953, 2004/09
The formation of internal transport barriers (ITBs) near q=3 surfaces in normal shear (NrS) discharges of JT-60U is known. In reverse shear (RS) JT-60U plasmas, the role of q minimum (qmin) equal to 3.5,3,2.5,2 was not obvious for ITB formation. ITB-events (non-local confinement bifurcations inside and around ITB) are found in various NrS and RS plasmas. Under sufficient heating power, ITB-events are seen at rational and not rational values of qmin. The space-time evolution of Te and Ti is similar, suggesting the same mechanism of Te and Ti transport. The temporal formation of strong ITB under passing of qmin=3 (after periodical improvements and degradations via ITB-events) in RS mode is presented. Under smaller power, ITB-events are observed only at rational values of qmin. In a weak RS shot, abrupt rise of Te is seen at qmin=3.5, while more cases of Ti rise are observed. The difference of Te and Ti evolutions seen regularly under the low power, suggests decoupling of Te and Ti transport.
-values in the ITB events in JT-60U reverse shear plasmasNeudatchin, S. V.*; Takizuka, Tomonori; Hayashi, Nobuhiko; Isayama, Akihiko; Shirai, Hiroshi; Fujita, Takaaki; Kamada, Yutaka; Koide, Yoshihiko; Suzuki, Takahiro
Nuclear Fusion, 44(9), p.945 - 953, 2004/09
Times Cited Count：18 Percentile：51.27(Physics, Fluids & Plasmas)The formation of internal transport barriers (ITBs) near =2,3 surfaces in normal shear (NrS) discharges of JT-60U and JET is known. In reverse shear (RS) JT-60U plasmas, the role of minimum (
) equal to 3.5,3,2.5,2 is not obvious for ITB formation. In this paper, the effect of low rational values on ITB-events in JT-60U NrS and RS plasmas is investigated. Under sufficient neutral beam power (
8MW for 1.2-1.5MA/3.8T pulses), ITB-events are seen at rational and non-rational values of . The space-time evolutions of 
and 
are similar, suggesting the same mechanism for and transports. The temporal formation of stronger ITB under passing =3 (after periodical improvements and degradations via ITB-events) in RS H-mode with =8MW is presented. Under smaller power, ITB-events are observed only at rational values. In a weak RS shot with =4MW, the abrupt rise of is seen at =3.5, while more cases of rise are observed. The difference between the and evolutions for the low power suggests the decoupling of and transports.
Yoshino, Ryuji
Nuclear Fusion, 43(12), p.1771 - 1786, 2003/12
Times Cited Count：49 Percentile：79.65(Physics, Fluids & Plasmas)no abstracts in English
JT-60 Team
JAERI-Review 2003-029, 197 Pages, 2003/11
JAERI-Review-2003-029.pdf:13.06MB
no abstracts in English
Sugihara, Masayoshi; Lukash, V.*; Kawano, Yasunori; Yoshino, Ryuji; Gribov, Y.*; Khayrutdinov, R.*; Miki, Nobuharu*; Omori, Junji*; Shimada, Michiya
Purazuma, Kaku Yugo Gakkai-Shi, 79(7), p.706 - 712, 2003/07
The time dependence of the current decay during the current quench phase of disruptions, which can significantly influence the electro-magnetic force on the in-vessel components due to the induced eddy currents, is investigated using data obtained in JT-60U experiments in order to derive a relevant physics guideline for the predictive simulations of disruptions in ITER. It is shown that an exponential decay can fit the time dependence of current quench for discharges with large quench rate (fast current quench). On the other hand, for discharges with smaller quench rate (slow current quench), a linear decay can fit the time dependence of current quench better than exponential.
Takizuka, Tomonori; Arakawa, Kazuya*; Shimizu, Katsuhiro; Hayashi, Nobuhiko; Asakura, Nobuyuki
JAERI-Research 2003-010, 57 Pages, 2003/05
JAERI-Research-2003-010.pdf:4.59MB
no abstracts in English
Kubo, Hirotaka; Sakurai, Shinji; Higashijima, Satoru; Takenaga, Hidenobu; Itami, Kiyoshi; Konoshima, Shigeru; Nakano, Tomohide; Koide, Yoshihiko; Asakura, Nobuyuki; Shimizu, Katsuhiro; et al.
Journal of Nuclear Materials, 313-316(1-3), p.1197 - 1201, 2003/03
Times Cited Count：19 Percentile：75.79(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)no abstracts in English
Sugie, Tatsuo; Hatae, Takaki; Koide, Yoshihiko; Fujita, Takaaki; Kusama, Yoshinori; Nishitani, Takeo; Isayama, Akihiko; Sato, Masayasu; Shinohara, Koji; Asakura, Nobuyuki; et al.
Fusion Science and Technology (JT-60 Special Issue), 42(2-3), p.482 - 511, 2002/09
Times Cited Count：6 Percentile：3.03(Nuclear Science & Technology)The diagnostic system of JT-60U (JT-60upgrade) is composed of about 50 individual diagnostic devices. Recently, the detailed radial profile measurements of plasma parameters have been improved, so that the internal structure of plasmas has been explored. The understanding of plasma confinement has been enhanced by density and temperature fluctuation measurements using a mm-wave reflectometer and electron cyclotron emission measurements respectively. In addition, the real-time control experiments of electron density, neutron yield, radiated power and electron temperature gradient have been carried out successfully by corresponding diagnostic devices. These measurements and the real time control contribute to improving plasma performance. Diagnostic devices for next generation fusion devices such as a CO2 laser interferometer/polarimeter and a CO2 laser collective Thomson scattering system have been developed.
Kitsunezaki, Akio; Shimizu, Masatsugu; Ninomiya, Hiromasa; Kuriyama, Masaaki; JT-60 Team
Fusion Science and Technology (JT-60 Special Issue), 42(2-3), p.179 - 184, 2002/09
Times Cited Count：7 Percentile：44.35(Nuclear Science & Technology)JT-60 has been operating for more than 16 years、since its first plasma in 1985, and has produiced a number of research results at the forefront of world tokamak fusion research. As the first paper of this special issue containing papers on all aspects of JT-60, this paper summerizes the history, the major research objectives and general description on the JT-60 machine, and summarize the results.
Nakamura, Yukiharu; Yoshino, Ryuji; Granetz, R. S.*; Pautasso, G.*; Gruber, O.*; Jardin, S. C.*
Purazuma, Kaku Yugo Gakkai-Shi, 78(4), p.347 - 355, 2002/04
no abstracts in English
Bak, P. E.; Asakura, Nobuyuki; Miura, Yukitoshi; Nakano, Tomohide; Yoshino, Ryuji
Physics of Plasmas, 8(4), p.1248 - 1252, 2001/04
Times Cited Count：1 Percentile：3.54(Physics, Fluids & Plasmas)The temporal losses of confinement during Edge Localised Modes in JT-60U show multifractal scaling and the spectra are generally smooth, but in some cases there are signs of discontinuous derivatives. Dynamics of the Sugama-Horton Model, interpreted as Edge Localised Modes, also display multifractal scaling. The spectra display singularities in the derivative, which can be interpreted as a phase transition. We argue that the multifractal spectra of Edge Localised Modes can be used to discriminate between different experimental discharges and validate Edge Localised Mode models.
line spectral profile and emission process in the divertor region of JT-60UKumagai, Akira*; Kubo, Hirotaka; Takenaga, Hidenobu; Suzuki, Shingo; Shimizu, Katsuhiro; Asakura, Nobuyuki; Shimada, Michiya
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 42(5), p.529 - 543, 2000/05
Times Cited Count：13 Percentile：39.66(Physics, Fluids & Plasmas)no abstracts in English
Kubo, Hirotaka; Higashijima, Satoru; Takenaga, Hidenobu; Kumagai, Akira*; Shimizu, Katsuhiro; Sugie, Tatsuo; Suzuki, Shingo; Sakasai, Akira; Asakura, Nobuyuki
NIFS-PROC-44, p.65 - 68, 2000/01
no abstracts in English
