Heating and current drive systems for FIRE AT operation

FIRE is a proposed high-field tokamak (B/sub 0/ up to 10 T) designed to explore burning plasma physics of conventional ELMy H-modes as well as several types of advanced tokamak (AT) modes. A 20-MW ion cyclotron system in the 70 to 115 MHz frequency range is the baseline heating system. This system should achieve Q /spl ap/ 10 in a 50:50 D-T plasma under standard (i.e., non-AT) conditions, and can also drive a modest amount of current near the center of the plasma during AT operation. Two other heating and current drive systems are being considered for FIRE as upgrade options: a 30-MW, 5-GHz lower hybrid system to drive current in the outer part of the plasma, and a 170-GHz electron cyclotron system to stabilize neoclassical tearing modes during AT operation.