Prolonged operation of the Joint European Torus (JET) in a set-up involving all ITER partners will be beneficial for ITER. Experiments at JET with its ITER-like wall and using a D–T plasma mixture will help to mitigate risks in the ITER research plan. Training of the ITER operators, technicians and engineers at JET will safe valuable time when IT…
A review of the development of advanced tokamak scenarios at the Joint European Torus (JET) is presented. It has been established that the current profile plays an important role in these regimes, and the presentation of the experimental achievement has been organized with this in mind. The main achievements are discussed: from high beta plasmas st…
A region of zero current density in the plasma center has been observed in the advanced tokamak scenarios with off-axis lower-hybrid current drive in the JET and JT-60U tokamak experiments. Significantly, the central current density does not become negative, although this is expected based on conventional current diffusion. In this paper, it is sho…