The ARIES-AT advanced tokamak, Advanced technology fusion power plant

Fusion Engineering and Design

Volumn 80, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 3-23

  Najmabadi, Farrokh ^a   Abdou, A ^b   Bromberg, L ^c   Brown, T ^d   Chan, V C ^e   Chu, M C ^e   Dahlgren, F ^d   El Guebaly, L ^b   Heitzenroeder, P ^d   Henderson, D ^b   St John, H E ^e   Kessel, C E ^d   Lao, L L ^e   Longhurst, G R ^f   Malang, S ^c   Mau, T K ^a   Merrill, B J ^f   Miller, R L ^a   Mogahed, E ^b   Moore, R L ^f   Petrie, T ^e   Petti, D A ^f   Politzer, P ^e   Raffray, A R ^a   Steiner, D ^g   Sviatoslavsky, I ^b   Synder, P ^e   Syaebler, G M ^e   Turnbull, A D ^e   Tillack, M S ^a   Waganer, L M ^h   Wang, X ^a   West, P ^e   Wilson, P ^b   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^e GENERAL ATOMICS   (United States)

^f IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^h BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fusion power plant; Reversed shear plasma; Tokamak

Indexed keywords

INTERFACES (MATERIALS); PRESSURE EFFECTS; SILICON CARBIDE; SUPERHEATERS; TOKAMAK DEVICES;

FUSION POWER; REVERSED SHEAR PLASMAS; TOKMAK PLASMAS;

POWER PLANTS;

EID: 30544432674     PISSN: 09203796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fusengdes.2005.11.003     Document Type: Article

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