The highly magnetized plasma device (ULMAP-FU-I) is set up, following our plan reported previously. The performance of the divice and parameters of the generated plasma are compard with those expected in our plan.
Dynamic stabilization of high beta plasmas by axial rf current has been theoretically investigated. It is shown that higher-number modes are very easy to be stabilized. In case of m=1 mode, if there is no conducting shell, the shorter wave-length instabilities can be stabilized, but the stabilized wave-number region is very narrow. When the plasma column is surrounded by a concentric conducting shell, however, the stabilizing force of the rf image current induced in the conducting shell is so effective that the long wave-length m=1 mode can be perfectly stabilized by very small rf current.