Injection-dominated tokamak experiments at ORNL

Technical Report · Sun Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1978

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6676357· OSTI ID:6676357

Neilson, G H; Lyon, J F; Murakami, M

Experiments on the Oak Ridge Tokamak (ORMAK) have demonstrated ion and electron heating and improvements in anti ..beta../sub T/, anti n/sub e/, and q(a/sub l/) with neutral beam injection. They have also emphasized the need for low impurity levels in injected plasmas and the advantages of co- as opposed to counterinjection. These results, together with the favorable confinement and impurity results obtained in the Impurity Study Experiment (ISX-A) are encouraging in terms of injection-dominated, high beta experiments planned for ISX-B. This device will use 3.0 MW of injection power to study beta limits, confinement, heating, and impurity control in noncircular cross-section plasmas.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-26
• OSTI ID: 6676357
• Report Number(s): CONF-780702-5
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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