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TJ-II is a flexible Heliac installed at Spain's [[Laboratorio Nacional de Fusión|National Fusion Laboratory]]. | TJ-II is a flexible Heliac installed at Spain's [[Laboratorio Nacional de Fusión|National Fusion Laboratory]]. | ||
It is one of Spain's [ | It is one of Spain's [https://www.ciencia.gob.es/Organismos-y-Centros/Infraestructuras-Cientificas-y-Tecnicas-Singulares-ICTS.html Unique Scientific and Technical Infrastructures]. | ||
It is currently operational. | It is currently operational. | ||
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The flexible Heliac TJ-II was designed on the basis of calculations performed by the team of physicists and engineers of [[CIEMAT]], in collaboration with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORNL ORNL], USA) and the Institut für PlasmaPhysik at Garching ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max-Planck-Institut_f%C3%BCr_Plasmaphysik IPP], Germany). | The flexible Heliac TJ-II was designed on the basis of calculations performed by the team of physicists and engineers of [[CIEMAT]], in collaboration with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORNL ORNL], USA) and the Institut für PlasmaPhysik at Garching ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max-Planck-Institut_f%C3%BCr_Plasmaphysik IPP], Germany). | ||
<ref> | <ref>T.C. Hender et al, ''Studies of a flexible heliac configuration'', [https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6007697-studies-flexible-heliac-configuration Report ORNL/TM-10374 (1987) OSTI ID: 6007697]</ref>, | ||
The TJ-II project received preferential support from [[Euratom]] for phase I (Physics) in 1986 and for phase II (Engineering) in 1990. The [[TJ-II:Construction|construction of this flexible Heliac]] was carried out in parts according to its constitutive elements, which were commissioned to various European companies, although 60% of the investments reverted back to Spanish companies. | <ref>A. Perea et al., "Physics Issues in the Design of TJ-II, Proc. 12th European Conf. Controlled Fusion and Plasma Physics, Budapest, Hungary, 1985, [http://libero.ipp.mpg.de/libero/PDF/EPS_12_Vol1_1985.pdf ECA Vol. 9F, Part I, p. 433], European Physical Society (1985)</ref>. | ||
The TJ-II project received preferential support from [[Euratom]] for phase I (Physics) in 1986<ref>Application for EURATOM preferential support (Phase I) - TJ-II EXPERIMENT, [https://info.fusion.ciemat.es/InternalReport/fusion_1985.pdf Technical report, Asociación EURATOM/CIEMAT, 1985]</ref> and for phase II (Engineering) in 1990<ref>Application for EURATOM preferential support (Phase II) - TJ-II EXPERIMENT, [https://info.fusion.ciemat.es/InternalReport/fusion_1989b.pdf Technical report, Asociación EURATOM/CIEMAT, 1989]</ref>. The [[TJ-II:Construction|construction of this flexible Heliac]] was carried out in parts according to its constitutive elements, which were commissioned to various European companies, although 60% of the investments reverted back to Spanish companies. | |||
The first plasma was produced in 1997.<ref>[http://www.ciemat.es/vertices/vertices-292017/Vertices29/pdf/VERTICES29.pdf Special issue of CIEMAT's magazine ''Vertices''] commemorating 20 years of experiments (December, 2017)</ref> | The first plasma was produced in 1997.<ref>[http://www.ciemat.es/vertices/vertices-292017/Vertices29/pdf/VERTICES29.pdf Special issue of CIEMAT's magazine ''Vertices''] commemorating 20 years of experiments (December, 2017)</ref> | ||
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* [[TJ-II:Compact Neutral Particle Analyzer|Compact Neutral Particle Analyzer]] | * [[TJ-II:Compact Neutral Particle Analyzer|Compact Neutral Particle Analyzer]] | ||
* [[TJ-II:Fast ion loss probe|Fast ion loss probe]] | * [[TJ-II:Fast ion loss probe|Fast ion loss probe]] | ||
* [[TJ-II:Retarding Field Analyzer|Retarding Field Analyzer]] | |||
* [[TJ-II:Fast camera|Fast camera]] | * [[TJ-II:Fast camera|Fast camera]] | ||
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* [[TJ-II:Lithium Beam|Lithium Beam]] | * [[TJ-II:Lithium Beam|Lithium Beam]] | ||
[ | [https://info.fusion.ciemat.es/cgi-bin/TJII_data.cgi Interactive on-line data visualization] | ||
== Numerical resources == | == Numerical resources == | ||
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* [[MOCA]] - Monte Carlo [[Neoclassical transport]] code | * [[MOCA]] - Monte Carlo [[Neoclassical transport]] code | ||
* [[DKES]] - [[Neoclassical transport]] code | * [[DKES]] - [[Neoclassical transport]] code | ||
* [[KNOSOS]] - [[Neoclassical transport]] code | |||
* [[TRECE]] - Microwave ray tracing | * [[TRECE]] - Microwave ray tracing | ||
* [[TRUBA]]- Microwave beam/ray tracing including electron Bernstein wave calculations. | * [[TRUBA]]- Microwave beam/ray tracing including electron Bernstein wave calculations. | ||