QUARTERLY REPORT COVERING THE PERIOD APRIL 1-JUNE 30, 1958

Technical Report · Sat Oct 31 04:00:00 EST 1959

OSTI ID:4302691

Equipment for the Geneva Conference was completed and tested, and installation at Geneva was started. Extensive data on hydrogen discharges in the B-3 stellarator indicate the rate of diffusion across a magnetic field, during ohmic heating, varies inversely as the square root of the confining field. The mechanism for this diffusion, which produces "pump-out" of the initial gas, is not yet understood. Analyses of data from B-1 and B-3 provided further information on the complex phenomena that occur during ohmic heating. Measurements of ion cyclotron resonance heating in B-65 confirmed earlier data on energy absorption by gas, but information on high-powcr heating is not yet available. Model C detail design was continued, and component procurement was initiated. (For preceding period see NYO-2193.) (D.E.B.)

• Research Organization: Princeton Univ., N.J. Project Matterhorn
• DOE Contract Number: AT(30-1)-1238
• NSA Number: NSA-13-001219
• OSTI ID: 4302691
• Report Number(s): NYO-2194; PM-Q-3
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

ABSORPTION-- ENERGY-- GASES-- HEATING-- IONS-- MEASURED VALUES-- RESONANCE-- STELLARATOR MODEL B-65-- STELLARATORS-- THERMONUCLEAR DEVICES
CONFINEMENT-- DIFFUSION-- ELECTRIC DISCHARGES-- GASES-- HEATING-- HYDROGEN-- MAGNETIC FIELDS-- MEASURED VALUES-- RESISTORS-- STELLARATOR MODEL B-3-- STELLARATORS-- THERMONUCLEAR DEVICES-- VARIATIONS
CONTROLLED THERMONUCLEAR PROCESSES
HEATING-- MEASURED VALUES-- RESISTORS-- STELLARATOR MODEL B-1-- STELLARATOR MODEL B-3-- STELLARATORS- - THERMONUCLEAR DEVICES
PLANNING-- STELLARATOR MODEL C-- STELLARATORS-- THERMONUCLEAR DEVICES