Noninductive plasma initiation and startup in the DIII-D tokamak

Nuclear Fusion

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Jackson, G L ^a   Humphreys, D A ^a   Hyatt, A W ^a   Lohr, J M ^a   Luce, T C ^a   Yu, J H ^b  

^a GENERAL ATOMICS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BURNING PLASMAS; CURRENT DRIVES; DIII-D TOKAMAK; ELECTRON CYCLOTRON HEATING; FLUX SURFACES; NONINDUCTIVE PLASMAS; OPEN FIELD LINES; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; PLASMA CURRENTS; PLASMA INITIATION; SECOND HARMONICS; SPHERICAL TOKAMAK;

CYCLOTRONS;

MAGNETOPLASMA;

EID: 80051608431     PISSN: 00295515     EISSN: 17414326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0029-5515/51/8/083015     Document Type: Article

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