Plasma measurements are an important part of spaceflight missions that seek to understand the formation and evolution of our solar system. Instrumentation has been designed for a wide variety of environments and measurement goals. We have developed plasma instrumentation that will fly within 9 solar-radii of the surface of the sun on NASA’s Solar Probe Plus Mission. At the other extreme, we...
JT-60SA is a highly shaped large superconducting Tokamak device. The project mission of JT-60SA is to contribute to early realization of fusion energy by supporting the exploitation of ITER and by complementing ITER in resolving key physics and engineering issues for DEMO with a variety of plasma actuators (heating, current drive, momentum input, stability control coils, resonant magnetic...
As part of the Roadmap to Fusion Electricity, Horizon 2020, Europe initiated a pre-conceptual design study of a Demonstration Fusion Reactor Concept (DEMO) a few years ago, which targets the generation of a few hundred MW of net electricity and the demonstration of a closed tritium fuel cycle in the 2050s.
The design and R&D approach adopted include some distinctive elements such as: 1) a...
