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...

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...