Neutral Beam Injection Groups

Neutral beam injection is used on most nuclear fusion experiments worldwide as a powerful means of heating the plasma. Also on ITER neutral beam injection will contribute the largest share to the installed heating power.

The three strongly interlinked working groups on neutral beam injection develop sources of negative hydrogen ions for neutral beam injection on ITER and future fusion power plants. They also operate the positive-ion-based neutral beam injection system on ASDEX Upgrade.

Besides, the groups are working on new positive-ion-based neutral beam injectors for future nuclear fusion experiments and technology demonstrators inside and outside IPP.