The spherical tokamak path to fusion power

Fusion Technology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-21

  Stambaugh, Ronald D ^a,b,c   Chan, Vincent S ^a,b   Miller, Robert L ^a,d   Schaffer, Michael J ^a,e  

^a GENERAL ATOMICS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fusion development; Low aspect ratio; Spherical tokamak

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; FUSION REACTIONS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES;

SPHERICAL TORUS (ST); TOROIDAL FIELD COIL;

TOKAMAK DEVICES;

EID: 0031671936     PISSN: 07481896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/FST33-1     Document Type: Article

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