Commissioning and initial operation of KSTAR superconducting tokamak

Fusion Engineering and Design

Volumn 84, Issue 2-6, 2009, Pages 344-350

  Oh, Yeong Kook ^a   Kim, W C ^a   Park, K R ^a   Park, M K ^a   Yang, H L ^a   Kim, Y S ^a   Chu, Y ^a   Kim, Y O ^a   Bak, J G ^a   Baang, E N ^a   Yoon, S W ^a   Hahn, S H ^a   Lee, H J ^a   Park, S H ^a   Kim, K H ^a   Hong, J ^a   Baek, S H ^a   Kim, M K ^a   Lee, T G ^a   Lee, S I ^a   Bae, Y S ^a   Yonekawa, H ^a   Choi, J H ^a   Hwang, I S ^a   Kim, Y J ^a   Cho, K W ^a   Park, Y M ^a   Kim, J Y ^a   Lee, J H ^a   Bak, J S ^a   Kwon, M ^a   Lee, G S ^a   Kwak, J G ^b   Ahn, H S ^c   Walker, M L ^d   Humphreys, D A ^d   Leuer, J A ^d   Hyatt, A ^d   Jackson, G ^d   Mueller, D ^e   Ivanov, D P ^f   more..

^a National Fusion Research Institute   (South Korea)

^b Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute   (South Korea)

^c POSCON Corporation   (South Korea)

^d GENERAL ATOMICS   (United States)

^e PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^f KURCHATOV INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Commissioning; Cool down; First plasma; Initial operation; KSTAR; Preionization; Superconducting magnet

Indexed keywords

COMMISSIONING; COOL-DOWN; FIRST PLASMA; INITIAL OPERATION; KSTAR; PREIONIZATION;

ACCELERATOR MAGNETS; CRYOGENICS; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; ELECTROMAGNETS; FEEDBACK; FUSION REACTORS; HELIUM; NIOBIUM; PLASMA CONFINEMENT; PLASMA HEATING; STATE FEEDBACK; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; TIN; VACUUM;

SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNETS;

EID: 67349193268     PISSN: 09203796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fusengdes.2008.12.099     Document Type: Article

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