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Researchers use one-of-a-kind expertise and capabilities to test fuels of tomorrow
At the Idaho National Laboratory Hot Fuel Examination Facility, containment box operator Jake Maupin moves a manipulator arm into position around a pencil-thin nuclear fuel rod. He is preparing for a procedure that he and his colleagues have practiced repeatedly in anticipation of this moment in the hot cell.
K. Hoshino, T. Yamamoto, H. Tamai, K. Ohasa, H. Kawashima, Y. Miura, T. Ogawa, T. Shoji, T. Shibata, K. Kikuchi, M. Sawahata, K. Takahashi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 49 | Number 2 | February 2006 | Pages 139-167
Technical Paper | JFT-2M Tokamak | doi.org/10.13182/FST06-A1092
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We briefly present the experimental results obtained using the various heating and current drive systems, such as electron cyclotron heating, fast wave, lower hybrid wave, ion cyclotron range of frequency, neutral beam injection heating, or the external coil systems or the divertor bias system developed in JFT-2M from the viewpoint of the active control of the tokamak plasma. The features and design concepts of each system are described briefly, as we had to develop such systems to carry out the physical research. The experimental findings in plasma heating, current drive, and advanced plasma control in the JFT-2M tokamak contributed to the design and experiments in the larger tokamaks and to ITER.