Bootstrap current is regarded as a serious candidate for non-inductively driving a significant fraction of the total current. High bootstrap fraction discharges have already been achieved and analysed in several tokamaks, including JT-60, DIII-D and TFTR. Tore Supra (R=2. 36 m, a=0.80 m) is...

This summary highlights the results of a study that examined and compared the probable short-term economic impacts of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) on the United States (U.S.) if (1) ITER were to be sited in the U.S. or (2) ITER were to be sited in one of the other...

The observation of substantial current drive from neutral beam injection (NBI) in TFTR, JET and DIII-D has led to renewed interest in a steady state, non-inductively driven tokamak. The discovery of apparently considerable neoclassical (bootstrap) current in TFTR, makes a steady state device...

This report presents the results of a study that examines and compares the probable short-term economic impacts of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) on the United States (U.S.) if (1) ITER were to be sited in the U.S., or (2) ITER were to be sited in one of the other...

Bootstrap current is regarded as a good candidate to sustain a large fraction of the plasma current, in the so-called `advanced` regimes of a tokamak reactor. It is thus important to study the stability of such discharges and to control them. By means of fast wave electron heating (FWEH, up to...

OAK-B135 The authors have initiated an experimental program to address some of the questions associated with operation of a tokamak with high bootstrap current fraction under high performance conditions, without assistance from a transformer. In these discharges they have maintained stationary...

The bootstrap fraction, I{sub bs}/I{sub p}, and the shape of the bootstrap current density, J{sub bs}(r), can depend sensitively on the shape of the plasma profiles. Beginning with Hirshman`s form for the bootstrap current density, and making a large aspect ratio expansion (proceeding two orders...

Current driven by electron Bernstein waves (EBW) and by the electron bootstrap effect are calculated separately and concurrently with a kinetic code, to determine the degree of synergy between them. A target {beta} = 40% NSTX plasma is examined. A simple bootstrap model in the CQL3D...

The bootstrap fraction, I{sub bs}/I{sub p}, and the shape of the bootstrap current density, J{sub bs}(r), can depend sensitively on the shape of the plasma profiles. Beginning with Hirshman's form for the bootstrap current density, and making a large aspect ratio expansion (proceeding two orders...

The effects of the radial electric field E/sub r/ on the bootstrap current in ATF-type configurations are studied with the Drift Kinetic Equation Solver (DKES). It is found that there is a range of E/sub r/ values over which the bootstrap current does not depend on E/sub r/. The effects of E/sub...