EAST

EAST

The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST, internal designation HT-7U) is an experimental superconducting tokamak magnetic fusion energy reactor in Hefei, the capital city of Anhui Province, in eastern China. The experiment is being conducted by the Hefei-based Institute of Plasma Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The project was proposed in 1996 and approved in 1998. According to a 2003 schedule, [ http://202.127.205.62/IAC/disk/Design%20of%20the%20EAST(HT-7U)Project/6.doc] buildings and site facilities were to be constructed by 2003, and tokamak assembly to take place from 2003 through 2005.

Construction was completed in March 2006 and on September 28, 2006, "first plasma" was achieved. In February 2007 the reactor sustained an electrical current of 250 kA for five seconds. [http://www.lacronica.com/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/CienciayTecnologia/01032007/224657.aspx]

The reactor is an improvement over China's first superconducting tokamak device, dubbed HT-7, also built by the Institute of Plasma Physics in partnership with Russia in the early 1990s.

According to official reports, the project's budget is a relatively small CNY ¥300 million (approx. USD $37 million), some 1/15 to 1/20 the cost of a comparable reactor built in other countries. [cite news|url=http://english.people.com.cn/200601/21/eng20060121_237208.html|title=China to build world's first "artificial sun" experimental device
publisher=People's Daily Online|date=2006-01-21]

Physics objectives

China is a member of the ITER consortium, and EAST will be a testbed for technologies proposed for the ITER project.

EAST will test:
*Superconducting NbTi poloidal field magnets, making it the first tokamak with superconducting toroidal and poloidal magnets
*Non-inductive current drive
*Pulses of up to 1000 seconds with 0.5 MA plasma current
*Schemes for controlling plasma instabilities through real-time diagnostics
*Materials for divertors and plasma facing components
*Operation with "β"N = 2 and "H"89 > 2

Tokamak parameters

References

External links

* [http://www.ipp.ac.cn/ENGLISH/research/EASTmain.htm Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Plasma Physics - EAST]
* [http://english.people.com.cn/200601/21/eng20060121_237208.html People's Daily article]
* [http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-03/02/content_4247782.htm Xinhua article Mar 1 2006] - Note that EAST is obviously not the "world's first experimental nuclear fusion device".
* [http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-03/24/content_4341563.htm Xinhua article Mar 24, 2006 Nuke fusion reactor completes test]
* [http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/international/asia/news/20060602p2g00m0in032000c.html Mainichi Daily News article Jun 2, 2006]
* [http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-01/15/content_5608276.htm Xinhua article Jan 15, 2007 Chinese scientists conduct more tests on thermonuclear fusion reactor]


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