Present status of Hanbit magnetic mirror device

The Hanbit magnetic mirror device, which is operated as a joint plasma rese arch facility, has been constructed at Korea Basic Science Institute for ba sic study and technology development of high temperature plasma confinement , plasma heating and diagnostics, and plasma applications, such as high-tem perature material testing for tokamak diverters. A 500-kW RF transmitter an d a 100-kW RF transmitter for ICRF heating are major heating sources in ope ration, and a few gyrotron-based ECRH systems are in preparation, The targe t plasma parameters at the central cell are 1-keV ion temperature, 200-eV e lectron temperature, and 5 x 10(12) cm(-3) electron density with 500-ms pla sma duration. The present status of the Hanbit device, which includes the s ystem overview and recent experimental result, is described in this paper, and future plans will be discussed.