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REACTORS

Patent ·
OSTI ID:4839489

Thermonuclear reactors, methods, and apparatus are described for controlling and confining high temperature plasma. Main axial confining coils in combination with helical windings provide a rotational transform that avoids the necessity of a figure-eight shaped reactor tube. The helical windings provide a multipolar helical magnetic field transverse to the axis of the main axial confining coils so as to improve the effectiveness of the confining field by counteracting the tendency of the more central lines of force in the stellarator tube to exchange positions with the magnetic lines of force nearer the walls of the tube. (AEC)

Research Organization:
Originating Research Org. not identified
NSA Number:
NSA-15-031759
Assignee:
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Patent Number(s):
US 3002912
OSTI ID:
4839489
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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