Proposal for FRX-C and multiple-cell Compact Torus experiments

Technical Report · Mon Oct 01 04:00:00 EDT 1979

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5769153· OSTI ID:5769153

Dreicer, H

A Compact Torus (CT) is a configuration for plasma confinement that offers possible engineering advantages for fusion power generation such as small size, simple blanket geometry, natural divertor, and spatially separable functions of plasma production and fusion energy generation. Two experiments to study the physics and technology of some particular CT configurations are proposed here as part of the LASL Compact Torus Program Plan. One experiment, FRX-C, is designed to study CT stability and transport properties by scaling the parameters of the existing FRX-B field-reversed theta-pinch experiment to higher temperatures, larger size, and increased plasma lifetime. The second experiment, a modification of the existing Scylla IV-P device, would form a linear array of CTs with the aim of understanding the effect on CT transport of improved plasma confinement on the open field lines outside the separatrix, as well as other multiple-cell effects.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos Scientific Lab., NM (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• OSTI ID: 5769153
• Report Number(s): LA-8045-P
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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PLANNING
REVERSE-FIELD PINCH
SCALING LAWS
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