Electron Cyclotron waves for current drive and neo-classical tearing mode mitigation in a DEMO machine

In this paper we present preliminary results of the analysis on driving current and mitigating Neo-classical Tearing Mode instabilities, using Electron Cyclotron waves, as input for Port Plug development and integration in DEMO. The study has been carried out in a joint collaboration between the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Karlsruhe, Germany) and Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (Garching, Germany), within the EUROfusion Power Plant Physics and Technology activity. The assessment has been performed for a pulsed DEMO machine and it has been constrained by requirements imposed by tritium self-sufficiency and structural components integrity.