Progress in technology and experiment of superconducting tokamaks in ASIPP

The Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IPP/CAS or ASIPP) has EAST in shaped plasma configuration and HT-7 with circular cross-section. Both machines focus on the investigation of some critical issues relating to steady-state and high performance plasma operation. Significant progress in developing technologies for long pulse operation, including CW heating and current drive, plasma control, actively water cooled in-vessel components, PFC material, wall conditioning, etc. has been achieved both in EAST and HT-7. These technologies enable significant extension of both plasma pulse length and plasma performance. EAST will be equipped with sufficient heating and current drive power in next few years for steady-state high performance plasma research. It provides unique opportunity for development of key fusion technologies and materials. The progress and future plan of TBM research on EAST is also reported.