Stdady state operation and control experiments on Tore Supra

摘要

The main programme of the Tore Supra tokamak is to route towards long pulse plasma discharges. Tore Supra is thus equipped with a superconducting toroidal magnet,a full set of actively cooled plasma facing components, and a heating and current drive capability based on high power RF systems connected to actively cooled antennas. After pioneering investigations using the LHCD systems alone (2 min and zero voltage discharges), recent efforts have concentrated on finding scenarios to couple the two RF heating systems in order to perform high power, long duration discharges.