Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research
Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research ( KSTAR for short) is a superconducting fusion experiment by the Fusion Research Institute in Daejeon , South Korea . The project was approved in 1995, but construction wassignificantly delayedby the East Asian financial crisis . KSTAR is also part of the ITER fusion experiment. The first plasma was ignited on July 15, 2008.
KSTAR was one of the first tokamak- type fusion experiments in the world with a superconducting magnet system . The KSTAR magnet system consists of 16 niobium - tin - direct current toroidal field magnets , 10 niobium tin alternating current poloidal field magnets and 4 niobium-titanium alternating current poloidal field magnets. The maximum toroidal field of 3.5 Tesla allows a maximum plasma current of 2 mega amps . As in other tokamak experiments, the plasma is heated by cyclotron resonance heating as well as by the injection of neutral particles . The initial heating output of the experiment was 8 megawatts . The experiment is carried out with hydrogen or deuterium. Plasma pulses of up to 300 seconds in duration are planned.
At the end of 2016, a plasma could be maintained in H-mode for 70 seconds.
Web links
- KSTAR homepage (English).
- KSTAR Project Status (PDF, English; 1.7 MB)
- KSTAR Assembly Status (October 2006, PDF, English; 3.4 MB)
- KSTAR has successfully achieved its First Plasma Target (PDF, 11.1 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from April 16, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. KSTAR has successfully achieved its First Plasma Target!
- ↑ NFRI News December 14, 2016 ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 17, 2017
