Overview of recent progress and future in GAMMA 10/PDX project

This paper presents an overview of the recent progress of GAMMA 10/PDX project. In the GAMMA 10/PDX project, development of fusion reactor relevant research related to magnetic mirror devices has been conducted. One of the main objectives is divertor simulation studies under the similar condition of actual fusion devices, which contributes to comprehensive development strategy towards the divertor plasma physics and plasma wall interaction (PWI) studies. The recent progress of this research is that an additional plasma heating (ICRF and ECH) significantly increased the ion flux up to 3.3 × 1023 /m2 s at the end-mirror exit, which proved an effectiveness of additional plasma heating for generating high ion flux from the mirror end. Superimposing a short pulse of ECH produces the maximum heat flux of 21 MW/m2 by improving the west plug ECH antenna system, which exceeds the heat-load of ITER divertor plates. In detached plasma formation experiments using the divertor simulation experimental module (D-module)...