Tokamak with liquid metal for inducing toroidal electrical field

Patent · 31 December 1980

OSTI ID:864006

Ohkawa, Tihiro ^[1]

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1. La Jolla, CA

A tokamak apparatus includes a vessel for defining a reservoir and confining liquid therein. A toroidal liner disposed within said vessel defines a toroidal space within the liner confines gas therein. Liquid metal fills the reservoir outside the liner. A magnetic field is established in the liquid metal to develop magnetic flux linking the toroidal space. The gas is ionized. The liquid metal and the toroidal space are moved relative to one another transversely of the space to generate electric current in the ionized gas in the toroidal space about its major axis and thereby heat plasma developed in the toroidal space.

• Research Organization: GA Technologies, Inc., San Diego, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AT03-76ET51011
• Assignee: United States of America as represented by United States (Washington, DC)
• Patent Number(s): 4,292,126
• Application Number: 06/015963
• OSTI ID: 864006
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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