MAST Upgrade - Construction Status
Joe Milnes, Nizar Ben Ayed, Fahim Dhalla, Geoff Fishpool, John Hill,, Ioannis Katramados, Richard Martin, Graham Naylor, Tom O'Gorman, Rory, Scannell, and the MAST Upgrade team

TL;DR
The MAST Upgrade project enhances the spherical tokamak's capabilities to test fusion reactor concepts, improve plasma physics understanding, and explore fusion component testing, with significant progress in subsystems and infrastructure during construction.
Contribution
This paper reports on the construction progress of the MAST Upgrade, detailing new subsystems and infrastructure essential for fusion research and reactor concept testing.
Findings
Completion of coil, armour, and support structure manufacturing
Installation of new divertor coils and power supplies
Upgrades to diagnostic systems and control infrastructure
Abstract
The Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak (MAST) is the centre piece of the UK fusion research programme. In 2010, a MAST Upgrade programme was initiated with three primary objectives, to contribute to: 1) Testing reactor concepts (in particular exhaust solutions via a flexible divertor allowing Super-X and other extended leg configurations); 2) Adding to the knowledge base for ITER (by addressing important plasma physics questions and developing predictive models to help optimise ITER performance of ITER) and 3) Exploring the feasibility of using a spherical tokamak as the basis for a fusion Component Test Facility. With the project mid-way through its construction phase, progress will be reported on a number of the critical subsystems. This will include manufacture and assembly of the coils, armour and support structures that make up the new divertors, construction of the new set coils that make…
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