Alternative approaches: Concept improvements in magnetic fusion research

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 357, Issue 1752, 1999, Pages 515-531

  Robinson, D C ^a  

^a CULHAM SCIENCE CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Compact toroids; Mirror machines; Reversed field pinch; Spherical tokamaks; Stellarator; Z pinches

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346339567     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1999.0339     Document Type: Article

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