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ADITYA (tokamak)

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ADITYA is a medium size tokamak installed at the Institute for Plasma Research in India. It has a major radius of 0.75 metres and a minor radius of the plasma is 0.25 metres. The maximum field strength is 1.2 tesla. It is operated by two power supplies, capacitor bank and APPS (ADITYA pulse power supply). The typical plasma parameters during capacitor bank discharges are: Ip ~ 30 kA, shot duration ~25 msec, central electron temperature ~ 100 eV and core plasma density ~ 1019 m-3.

Various diagnostics used in ADITYA include electric and magnetic probes, microwave interferometry, Thomson scattering and charge exchange spectroscopy.