First Engineering Commissioning of EAST Tokamak

Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak （EAST） is the first fully superconducting tokamak. The first commissioning started on Feb. 1st of 2006 and finished on March 30TM of 2006 at the Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. It consists of leakage testing at both room temperature and low temperature, pumping down, cooling down all coils, current leads, bus bar and the thermal shielding, exciting all the coils, measuring magnetic configuration and warming up the magnets. The electromagnetic, thermal hydraulic and mechanical performance of EAST Toroidal Field （TF） and Poloidal Field （PF） magnets have also been tested. All sub-systems, including pumping system, cryogenic system, PF＆ TF power supply systems, magnet instrumentation system, quench detection and protection system, water cooling system, data acquisition system, main control system, plasma control system （PCS）, interlock and safety system have been successfully tested.

托卡马克中局域磁扰动引起的高能量离子损失研究

基于单粒子导心运动代码ORBIT,采用测试粒子模拟方法,研究了托卡马克等离子体内部不同径向位置处局域磁场扰动对高能量离子的损失的影响。研究表明,在局域磁扰动主要分布在某磁面附近、其环向具有类似纹波场形式下,可造成一些靠近等离子体中心区域的高能量离子损失,但对靠近等离子边界的离子损失影响相对不大。这些损失的高能量离子均为捕获离子,离子的投掷角越大就越容易损失。此外,造成高能量离子最大损失率的局域场径向位置与这些损失离子的初始径向位置通常存在一定的偏移,而且这个偏移与这些离子的能量密切相关。当局域场出现在某些位置时,能量较低的离子会有一定的损失,能量较高的离子反而不会损失。