The steady-state tokamak program

A steady-state tokamak experiment (STE) is needed to develop the technology and physics database required for construction of a steady-state fusion power demonstration reactor in the early 21st century. The STE will provide an integrated facility for the development and demonstration of steady-state and particle handling, low-activation, high-heat-flux components and materials, efficient current drive, and continuous plasma and impurity control while maintaining high-quality plasma performance in steady-state, with reactor-like plasma conditions under severe conditions of heat and particle bombardment of the wall. The STE facility will also be used to develop operation and control scenarios for ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor)