By the use of the JIPP T-II torus device (IPP Nagoya), an experiment on ECR discharge cleaning was carried out. The aim was focused to finding the effect of the cleaning on tokamak discharges. To characterize the tokamak discharge property, mean plasma resistivity, intensity of an oxygen ion spectral line and mean electron density without gas puffing were measured. The first cleaning operation for 5 hours drastically improved the purity of the tokamak discharge plasma. The succeeding 75 hours' cleaning gave the wall surface condition corresponding to
Zeff=1.0.
The cleaning plasma had the electron temperature of 5 eV and the density of about 1×10
10cm
-3 with a hy drogen pressure of 2.9×10
-2 Pa and a microwave power of 800 W.
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