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’Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house
No electrons were flowing through even my mouse.
All devices were plugged by the chimney with care
With the hope that St. Nikola Tesla would share.
M. Matsukawa, H. Ninomiya, H. Horiike, N. Hosogane, R. Yoshino
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 3 | May 1992 | Pages 1624-1629
Plasma Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A29952
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This paper describes the design modifications to the plasma feedback control system, including power supply, for the Upgrade of JT-60. One of the major design issues was to be able to change the kind of control command for the thyristor converter from voltage to current and vice versa at any time during the discharge. Another one was to adopt a faster control system with 250µs response for stabilization of plasma vertical position, even in plasmas with high elongation of 1.8. These modifications improved the plasma controllability especially at initiation and made protecting the poloidal field coil system easier when the plasma disrupts. The high flexibility of the control system led to the achievement of a 4MA plasma after only 2 weeks of JT-60U operation.