Alternating current operation with multicycles in the CT-6B tokamak

Stable and clean AC tokamak discharges with two, four and eight cycles of alternating plasma current have been achieved in the CT-6B tokamak. Although there are differences in the plasma-wall interactions in the two halves of each AC cycle, the purity of the plasma is not significantly affected. The finite electron densities during the current reversal phases of each cycle are attributed to a non-zero particle confinement time even at zero current. The plasma parameters in the boundary region during the AC operations were measured by a triple probe system