Progress towards steady state at low aspect ratio on the national spherical torus experiment (NSTX)

Nuclear Fusion

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1376-1382

  Gates, D A ^a   Menard, J ^a   Maingi, R ^b   Kaye, S ^a   Sabbagh, S A ^c   Diem, S ^a   Wilson, J R ^a   Bell, M G ^a   Bell, R E ^a   Ferron, J ^d   Fredrickson, E D ^a   Kessel, C E ^a   Leblanc, B P ^a   Levinton, F ^e   Manickam, J ^a   Mueller, D ^a   Raman, R ^f   Stevenson, T ^a   Stutman, D ^g   Taylor, G ^a   Tritz, K ^g   Yu, H ^e   more..

^a PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NYC ^*  (United States)

^d GENERAL ATOMICS   (United States)

^e Nova Photonics Inc   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^g JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BURNING PLASMAS; CURRENT DRIVES; DIVERTOR PLATE; DIVERTORS; ELECTRON BERNSTEIN WAVES; ENERGY CONFINEMENT; EQUILIBRIUM RECONSTRUCTION; HEATING SOURCE; HIGH ELONGATION; HIGH HARMONIC FAST WAVES; HYBRID MODE; ISOFLUX; ITER DEVICES; LOW ASPECT RATIO; MHD STABILITY; NATIONAL SPHERICAL TORUS EXPERIMENTS; NEUTRAL-BEAM-DRIVEN CURRENTS; NON-INDUCTIVE CURRENTS; NONINDUCTIVE CURRENT DRIVES; PLASMA CONTROL; PLASMA ELONGATION; PLASMA PERFORMANCE; POLOIDAL FIELD COILS; PRESSURE-DRIVEN; PULSE LENGTH; QUANTITATIVE AGREEMENT; REACTOR CONCEPTS; SAWTEETH; SHAPE FACTOR; STATISTICAL EVIDENCE; STEADY STATE; STEADY-STATE OPERATION; TOTAL CURRENT;

ASPECT RATIO; DUST COLLECTORS; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; EXPERIMENTS; FUSION REACTIONS; HEAT FLUX; PLASMA CONFINEMENT; SAFETY FACTOR; SETTLING TANKS; TOKAMAK DEVICES;

PLASMA STABILITY;

EID: 72449123278     PISSN: 00295515     EISSN: 17414326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0029-5515/47/9/040     Document Type: Article

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