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In March 2006 Xinhua News reported that construction was complete. EAST is to conduct its initial test discharge sometime during July and August 2006. The first experiments of the reactor will be to create an ohmic plasma. Scientists will study the properties of this type of plasma for further research in the field of plasma physics.

The reactor is an improvement over China's first superconducting Tokamak device, dubbed HT-7 , also built by the Institute of Plasma Physics in partnership with Russia in the early 1990s .

According to official reports, the project's budget is a relatively small 300 million Yuan , approximately 37 million U.S. Dollar s.


PHYSICS OBJECTIVES

China is a member of the ITER consortium, and EAST will be a testbed for technologies proposed for the ITER project.

EAST will test:
  • Superconducting NbTi poloidal field magnets, making it the first tokamak with superconducting toroidal and poloidal magnets

  • Non-inductive current drive

  • Pulses of up to 1000 seconds with 0.5 MA plasma current

  • Schemes for controlling plasma instabilities through real-time diagnostics

  • Materials for divertors and Plasma Facing Components

  • Operation with ''β''N = 2 and ''H''89 > 2



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