The paper presents a general overview of the Frascati Tokamak Upgrade (FTU) machine operation in the last two years. About 3500 pulses were performed (mostly in D/sub 2/) with a toroidal field between 2.5 and 8 Tesla and a plasma current between 0.35-1.3 MA, according to the experimental programmes. An availability analysis of the FTU plant was performed, which pointed out the number of pulses per day and the causes of delay. The main research activities concentrated on plasma MHD studies with different heating scenarios: lower hybrid waves current drive (LHCD) and electron cyclotron resonance heating (ECRH) were used both alone and together to investigate synergetic effects. Strong effort was devoted to high density (1/spl times/10/sup 20/ m/sup -3/) current drive experiments and investigating the possibility of obtaining and sustaining shear reversal configurations. Near term scientific and technological programmes are also reported.
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机译：本文概述了过去两年弗拉斯卡蒂Tokamak升级（FTU）机械运行的一般概述。根据实验程序，在2.5和8个特斯拉之间进行约3500个脉冲（大多数为D / Sub 2 /），介于2.5和8个特斯拉之间的血浆电流和0.35-1.3 mA之间的等离子体电流。进行FTU工厂的可用性分析，指出每天脉冲数和延迟原因。集中于不同加热场景的等离子体MHD研究的主要研究活动：单独使用较低的混合波电流驱动器（LHCD）和电子回旋共振加热（ECRH），并共同研究协同效应。强大的努力致力于高密度（1 / SPL次/ 10 / SUP 20 / M / SUP -3 /）电流驱动实验，并研究获得和维持剪切反转配置的可能性。还报道了近期科学和技术计划。
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