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Diagnostic Development on NSTX

D. Johnson, R. Kaita, A.L. Roquemore, and the NSTX Team

Date of PPPL Report: December 1999

Presented at: The 18th IEEE/NPSS (Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers/Nuclear and Plasma Science Society) Symposium on Fusion Engineering (SOFE) which was held in Albuquerque, NM, on October 25-29, 1999.

Diagnostics are described which are currently installed or under active development for the newly commissioned NSTX device. The low aspect ratio (R/a less than or equal to 1.3) and low toroidal field (0.1-0.3 T) used in this device dictate adaptations in many standard diagnostic techniques. Technical summaries of each diagnostic are given and adaptations, where significant, are highlighted.