Design and first experimental results of toroidal field ripple reduction using ferritic insertion in JFT-2M

Fusion Engineering and Design

Volumn 51-52, Issue , 2000, Pages 1071-1076

  Sato, M ^a   Kawashima, H ^a   Miura, Y ^a   Tsuzuki, K ^a   Kimura, H ^a   Uehara, K ^a   Ogawa, T ^a   Isei, N ^a   Tani, T ^a   Akiyama, T ^a   Shibata, T ^a   Yamamoto, M ^a   Koike, T ^a   Abe, M ^b   Nakayama, T ^b  

^a Exp Plasma Physics Laboratory   (Japan)

^b HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERRITE; STEEL; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

TOROIDAL FIELD RIPPLE REDUCTION;

TOKAMAK DEVICES;

EID: 0034314934     PISSN: 09203796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0920-3796(00)00202-7     Document Type: Article

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