Advances in the FAST program

Abstract

FAST (Fusion Advanced Studies Torus) is a proposal for a Satellite Facility which can contribute the rapid exploitation of ITER and prepare ITER and DEMO regimes of operation, as well as exploiting innovative DEMO technology. FAST operates with high performance H-Mode (BT up to 8.5 T; IP up to 8 MA) as well as Advanced Tokamak operation (IP=3 MA), and full non inductive current scenario (IP=2 MA) [1]. The project is based on a dominant 30 MW of ICRH, 6 MW of LH and 4 MW of ECRH.