Recently, much attention has been paid to the non-inductive current drive methods, in connection with the possibility of steady-state tokamaks. In this paper, several theories of the current drive are reviewed and their efficiencies are discussed and compared with each other. Recent experimental results are also summaried. Finally application of these methods to future tokamak reactors are discussed.
The method to neutralize high energy ion beams by a supersonic gas jet has been examined to solve the pumping problem of neutral beam injectors. The performance of this gas jet cell has been estimated, and it has been shown that the jet cell could reduce the pumping speed by about 50 %. The flow field structure of a two-dimensional supersonic jet has also been obtained experimentally by using the low density wind tunnel, and the neutralizing process of fast ions in the jet has been clarified.