Fusion News: E & T Magazine – Last artificial star in tokamak MAST before major upgrade
The £30m upgrade is set to make MAST (the Mega Ampere Spherical Tokamak), a cutting edge facility. It will increase its power and enable testing technologies that will improve the knowledge base needed for the construction of ITER, but also to test systems for the DEMO prototype fusion power plant.
“To take fusion forward to ITER and through to commercial power, we need to keep improving our research facilities. In 2015, CCFE will have a machine that we and our collaborators from around the world can use to explore exciting new areas of plasma physics and test innovative concepts for fusion technology. We can’t wait,” said Dr Brian Lloyd, Head of CCFE Experiments Department.
One of the key technologies the upgraded MAST will be equipped with is the Super-X divertor, an innovative high-power exhaust system that will reduce the power loads from particles leaving the plasma.
