Results from D-T experiments on TFTR and implications for achieving an ignited plasma

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

Volumn 357, Issue 1752, 1999, Pages 443-469

  Hawryluk, R J ^a  

^a PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ignited plasma; Magnetohydrodynamic stability; Plasma transport; Tokamak; Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor; particle physics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346339569     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1999.0336     Document Type: Article

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