Type Tokamak Major radius 30 cm Magnetic field 0.15 T (toroidal) | Operation date 2002– Minor Radius 23 cm Plasma current 30 kA | |
SUNIST, the abbreviation of Sino-UNIted Spherical Tokamak, is a small spherical tokamak in the Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Current research activities
Alfven wave current drive experiments in spherical tokamak plasmas Alfven wave can generate toroidal plasma current without density limits. This is very favourable for spherical tokamak plasmas, which have very high dielectric constants that makes LHCD or ECCD very hard.
References
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