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Recent results in the Los Alamos compact torus program

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OSTI ID:5906334
A Compact Toroid is a toroidal magnetic-plasma-containment geometry in which no conductors or vacuum-chamber walls pass through the hole in the torus. Two types of compact toroids are studied experimentally and theoretically at Los Alamos: spheromaks that are oblate in shape and contain both toroidal and poloidal magnetic fields, and field-reversed configurations (FRC) that are very prolate and contain poloidal field only.
Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Lab., NM (USA); Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (USA)
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-36
OSTI ID:
5906334
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-83-1898; CONF-830908-2; ON: DE83014147
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English