ITER Technology and Diagnostics

Development and operation of different systems for heating and controlling the plasma parameters for the large fusion experiments of the IPP;
support for the enhancements of the JET heating systems; collaboration on the development of heating systems for ITER.

The fusion experiments of the IPP are heated by three methods:

• injection of fast particles
  Neutral Beam Injection (NBI)
• coupling of waves
  Ion Cyclotron Range of Frequencies (ICRF)
• wave heating at the electron cyclotron resonance frequency
  Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating (ECRH)

Whereas the first two methods heat both ions and electrons, only electrons are heated by ECRH.

The following table shows the maximum powers installed at IPP: