FAST: A European ITER satellite experiment in the view of DEMO

Fusion Advanced Studies Torus (FAST) aims to contribute to the exploitation of ITER and to explore innovative DEMO technology. FAST has been designed to study, in an integrated scenario: (a) relevant plasma-wall interaction problems, with a large power load (P/R ∼ 22 MW/m; P/R2 ∼ 12 MW/m2) and with a full metallic wall; (b) to tackle operational problems in regimes with relevant fusion parameters; (c) to investigate the non-linear dynamics of fast particles (alpha like) in burning plasmas. FAST will operate on a wide parameters range, namely in high performance H-mode (BT ∼ 8.5 T; IP ∼ 8 MA) as well as in advanced Tokamak operation up to full non-inductive current scenario (IP ∼ 2 MA). The main heating is based on 30 MW ICRH, but the ports have been designed to allocate up to 20 MW of 1 MeV NNBI. Helium gas at 30 K is used for cooling of the full machine, a preliminary analysis shows the possibility of realizing FAST with a complete superconductor set of coils. An innovative active system is under development to reduce and to control the magnetic ripple. Tungsten (W) or liquid lithium (L–Li) has been chosen for the divertor material plates and the code EDGE2D has been used to optimize the divertor geometry.