System design for the new TMX machine

Conference · Wed Oct 19 04:00:00 EDT 1977

OSTI ID:5366954

Chargin, A K; Calderon, M O; Mooney, L J; Vogtlin, G E

The Tandem Mirror Experiment (TMX) is designed to test the physics of a new approach to Q-enhancement in open confinement systems. In the tandem mirror concept, the ends of a long solenoid are plugged electrostatically by means of ambipolar potential barriers created in two mirror machines or plugs, one at each end of the solenoid. The ambipolar potential in mirror machines develops as a consequence of the higher scattering rate of electrons and the balancing of electron and ion loss rates. The TMX experiment incorporates very few new engineering developments, but it does involve a new way of combining in an integrated system many previously developed ideas. The engineering task is to design the machine that would provide a proof-of-principle evaluation of the tandem mirror concept as rapidly as possible. The preliminary design was started in September 1976 and was completed by December 1976. It led to a cost estimate of $11 million and a scheduled construction period of 18 months.

• Research Organization: California Univ., Livermore (USA). Lawrence Livermore Lab.
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 5366954
• Report Number(s): UCRL-79749; CONF-771029-16
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
700200* -- Fusion Energy-- Fusion Power Plant Technology
BOSONS
COST
DESIGN
ELECTRIC COILS
ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
EQUIPMENT
GEOMETRY
HADRONS
INSTABILITY
MAGNETIC MIRROR TYPE REACTORS
MATHEMATICS
MESON RESONANCES
MESONS
PLASMA INSTABILITY
Q RESONANCES
RESONANCE PARTICLES
SOLENOIDS
TEST FACILITIES
THERMONUCLEAR REACTORS
TMX DEVICES