Ultra-high-beta spherical tokamak formation by use of an oblate field-reversed configuration

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 7, Issue 5 II, 2000, Pages 1863-1869

  Ono, Y ^a   Inomoto, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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EID: 0000904724     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.874009     Document Type: Article

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