KSTAR

KSTAR (Korean Superconducting Tokamak Reactor) is a long pulse, superconducting tokamak being designed to explore advanced tokamak regimes under steady state conditions. A team of US national laboratories, universities, and industrial participants (including MIT, LLNL, ORNL, PPPL, and GA) which is supporting the Korean National Fusion Program in the design of KSTAR.

Project Mission

The mission of the KSTAR project is to develop a steady-state-capable advanced superconducting tokamak to establish the scientific and technological bases for an attractive fusion reactor as a future energy source.

Research Objectives

• To extend present stability and performance boundaries of tokamak operation through active control of profiles and transport.
• To explore methods to achieve steady state operation for tokamak fusion reactors using non-inductive current drive.
• To integrate optimized plasma performance and continuous operation as a step toward an attractive tokamak fusion reactor.

Role in World-Wide Fusion Research

• Extend advanced tokamak research to high performance and steady state operating regimes.
• Contribute techniques for successful steady state physics operation of ITER.
• Compare advanced tokamak physics results with those from superconducting stellarators and spherical tokamaks.

Links

• Korean National Fusion Research Center
• PPPL Fusion Energy Science Home Page

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