IMPROVEMENTS IN OR RELATING TO GAS DISCHARGE APPARATUS

Patent · Wed Mar 16 04:00:00 EST 1960

OSTI ID:4152114

Thonemann, P C; Carruthers, R

A means is offered for preventing contact of the plasma with its container in toroid thermonuclear reactors. It consists in providing the container with electrically conducting walls of a thickness large compared with the greatest skin depth of eddy currents induced in the walls by movement of the discharge. Deviation of the plasma current from the center of its torus would induce additional circulating eddy currents in the wall and restore the current to the center. The reflection of the current channel by the wall also increases the energy of the positive nuclei. (T.R.H.)

• Research Organization: Originating Research Org. not identified
• NSA Number: NSA-14-011236
• OSTI ID: 4152114
• Report Number(s): GB 830251
• Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• Language: English

Related Subjects

CONFIGURATION
CURRENTS
CYLINDERS
EDDY CURRENTS
ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY
ELECTRIC DISCHARGES
ENERGY
GASES
INDUCTION
IONS
PHYSICS
PLANNING
REFLECTION
THERMONUCLEAR DEVICES
THICKNESS
TORUS
VESSELS