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Juellch, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY 



TEXTOR 



KFA-Juellch 



Federal Republic of Germany and EURATOM 



"Big Science" Descriptor : Magnetic fusion 



Description of Facility/Instrument : TEXTOR is a medium-sized tokamak. 

 Its main objectives are to study the plasma wall interaction and 

 create the data base in this area that will be required for de- 

 signing the Next European Tokamak (NET). TEXTOR has been built 

 so that the liner can be quickly removed and replaced. 



Date of Construction : 1981 



Construction Cost ; 1984 $$ : $50 to $70 million 



Present International Cooperation 



Natlonality(s) of Ownership : Federal Republic of Germany 

 Nationality(s) of Operational Funding : Federal Republic of 



Germany and EURATOM 

 Natlonallty(s) of Management Staff : Federal Republic of Germany 

 Natlonalicy(s) of Researchers : Federal Republic of Germany. At 



present, the United States is spending about $1.2 million for 

 collaboration on TEXTOR. There are also exchanges of per- 

 sonnel that total about four to five man-years of effort 

 per year. Most of this effort is directed toward the ad- 

 vanced limiter test (ALT) pumped llmiter experiments 

 ALT-I and ALT-II. 



