Development of a full scale remote steerable ECRH mm-wave launching system test set-up for ITER

FOM is developing a full-scale mock-up of the mm-wave upper-port launching system for electron cyclotron resonance heating in ITER. The test set-up foresees in most of the typical ITER operation conditions, e.g. primary vacuum and the secondary vacuum, blanket cooling and component cooling conditions. All relevant operational ITER conditions except neutron radiation can be simulated, including baking conditions. The fabrication of the launching system mock-up will be the last step in the development phase, which will be characterized by the fabrication of test samples and mm-wave tests and calculations. The parameterized modeling of mm-wave beam propagation in CATIA [D.M.S. Ronden, et al., Parameterized modeling of mm-wave beam propagation of the ITER ECRH remote steering upper port launcher in CATIA, this conference] (8th figure in this article) the test and calculation results will be used for the built to print design of the remote steering ECRH launcher for the ITER upper ports [A.G.A. Verhoeven, et al., Design of the Remote Steering ITER ECRH Upper Port Launcher, this conference].