N-NBI heating and current drive in JT-60U towards steady-state tokamak

Ikeda, Yoshitaka; Oikawa, Toshihiro; Ide, Shunsuke

Purazuma, Kaku Yugo Gakkai-Shi, 81(10), p.773 - 778, 2005/10

https://doi.org/10.1585/jspf.81.773

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.