First diverter plasma configuration in EAST was obtained in the second campaign after the last IAEA meeting. To support the long pulse diverted plasma discharges, new capabilities including the fully actively water cooled in-vessel components, current drive and heating power, diagnostics, real-time plasma control algorithm were developed. Pre-program shape and RZIP feedback control produce a va...

The relation between the safety factor profile, q, the electron transport and the bootstrap current is of crucial importance for predicting advanced scenarios in burning plasmas which will have dominant electron heating and small momentum input. In recent experiments in the Tokamak TCV, the full plasma current has been sustained with only off-axis co-current drive and bootstrap current. As soon...