CTR plasma engineering studies. Annual progress report, 1 November 1981-30 October 1982

Technical Report · Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1982

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5223756· OSTI ID:5223756

Miley, G. H.

During FY 82, much effort was devoted to work in support of alternate confinement concepts, especially those involving field reversal. This work includes: (1) development of particle and energy confinement scaling for the Reversed Field Pinch (RFP) and the Field Reversed Theta Pinch (FRTP), and (2) analysis of start-up (heating and plasma build) for the spheromak and Field Reversed Mirror (FRM). In addition, a block of projects were concerned with fusion product effects, including heating and ash build-up. These include, (1) a study of possible use of radial electric fields to control ash build-up in tokamaks, (2) effects of alpha-driven microinstabilities on heating in tokamaks, and (3) fusion product transport, including effects of large angle scattering on orbits, in EBT and FRM devices. In a related study, the possibility of hot-ion mode operation (assuming strong transfer of fusion product energy to ions, e.g. via microinstabilities) was done with emphasis on calculation of ion-electron equilibration rates.

• Research Organization: Illinois Univ., Urbana (USA). Fusion Studies Lab.
• DOE Contract Number: AS02-76ET52040
• OSTI ID: 5223756
• Report Number(s): DOE/ET/52040-238; COO-2218-238; ON: DE82015269; TRN: 82-014527
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Portions of document are illegible
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
FIELD-REVERSED MIRROR REACTORS
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
MAGNETIC FIELD REVERSAL
REVERSE-FIELD PINCH
SPHEROMAK DEVICES
ALPHA PARTICLES
ELMO BUMPY TORUS
HELIUM
PLASMA HEATING
PLASMA MICROINSTABILITIES
THETA PINCH
CHARGED PARTICLES
CLOSED PLASMA DEVICES
ELEMENTS
ELMO DEVICES
FLUIDS
GASES
HEATING
INSTABILITY
MAGNETIC FIELD CONFIGURATIONS
MAGNETIC MIRROR TYPE REACTORS
MAGNETIC MIRRORS
NONMETALS
OPEN PLASMA DEVICES
PINCH EFFECT
PLASMA INSTABILITY
RARE GASES
THERMONUCLEAR DEVICES
THERMONUCLEAR REACTORS
TOKAMAK DEVICES
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