The Advanced Toroidal Facility (ATF)

Conference · Mon Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 1985 · Fusion Technol.; (United States)

OSTI ID:5876268

Thompson, P B

The Advanced Toroidal Facility (ATF) is a new magnetic plasma confinement device, under construction at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), which will lead to improvements in toroidal magnetic fusion reactors. ATF is a type of stellarator known as a torsatron which theoretically has the capability to operate at greater than or equal to8% beta in steady state. The ATF plasma has a major radius of 2.1 m, an average minor radius of 0.3 m, and a field of 2 T for a 5-s duration or 1 T steady state. The ATF device consists of a helical field (HF) coil set, a set of poloidal field (PF) coils, an exterior shell structure to support the coils, and a thin, helically contoured vacuum vessel inside the coils. The ATF replaces the ISX-B tokamak at ORNL and will use the ISX-B auxiliary systems, including 4 MW of neutral injection heating and 0.2 MW of electron cyclotron heating. ATF is scheduled to start operation in the fall of 1986. An overview of the ATF device is presented, including details of the construction process envisioned.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Fusion Energy Division, Oak Ridge, TN
• OSTI ID: 5876268
• Report Number(s): CONF-850310-
• Conference Information: Journal Name: Fusion Technol.; (United States) Journal Volume: 8:1
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
700205* -- Fusion Power Plant Technology-- Fuel
Heating
& Injection Systems
ATF TORSATRON
BEAM INJECTION
BEAM INJECTION HEATING
BETA RATIO
CLOSED PLASMA DEVICES
CONFIGURATION
DESIGN
DOCUMENT TYPES
ECR HEATING
FABRICATION
HEATING
HELICAL CONFIGURATION
HIGH-FREQUENCY HEATING
ISX TOKAMAK
MAGNETIC FIELD CONFIGURATIONS
NEUTRAL ATOM BEAM INJECTION
PLASMA HEATING
REVIEWS
STELLARATORS
THERMONUCLEAR DEVICES
THERMONUCLEAR REACTORS
TOKAMAK TYPE REACTORS
TORSATRON STELLARATOR