Review of the experimental papers at the IAEA conference on noninductive current drive, Culham, 1983

Technical Report · Sat Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 1983

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5650094· OSTI ID:5650094

Motley, R W

Three types of noninductive current drive experiments have been reported at this conference: (1) neutral beam (2) rf current drive, and (3) relativistic electron beams (REB). If we compare the effort to develop current drive to a horse race, the neutral beam horse was first out of the gates, but it quickly found greener pastures (heating) and has dropped temporarily out of the race. The lower hybrid horse now has a big lead at the first furlong (200 m), but the bulk of the race remains to be run. The fast wave and REB horses have yet to get up speed.

• Research Organization: Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH03073
• OSTI ID: 5650094
• Report Number(s): PPPL-2039; ON: DE84002363
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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