Overview of Recent ISTTOK Results

Abstract

This paper reviews the recent work developed on ISTTOK. A wide variety of diagnostic tools, instrumentation and systems have been developed demonstrating that small tokamaks can play an important role in the fusion community. Furthermore, a physics programme has been carried out with particular emphasis on the control and characterization of the edge fluctuations. Recently, the ISTTOK programme has also dedicated particular attention to the development of plasma facing components being both liquid metal limiters and nanostructured materials.