TJ-I

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The TJ-I tokamak was the first magnetic confinement device at CIEMAT (then JEN). It started operation in 1983, and has been operational until 1995. Ohmic heating was used.

TJ-I at the end of its life

This device has been the subject of many research programmes dedicated to the study of physical processes in tokamak plasmas:

  • basic confinement studies (transport, electric fields, isotope effect)
  • edge physics
  • turbulence studies (driving mechanisms, turbulent transport)
  • plasma-wall interaction (carbonization, boronization)
  • diagnostic development (microwave reflectometry, radiation detectors, probes, atomic beams,...)


Parameter Value Unit
Major radius, R0: 0.30 m
Mean plasma radius, a: 0.10 m
Plasma current, Ip: 30 kA
Toroidal field, BT: 1.0 - 1.4 T
Electron density, ne: 1.3 1019 m-3

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