Tokamak with liquid metal toroidal field coil

Patent · Thu Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1981

OSTI ID:864072

Ohkawa, Tihiro; Schaffer, Michael J.

Tokamak apparatus includes a pressure vessel for defining a reservoir and confining liquid therein. A toroidal liner disposed within the pressure vessel defines a toroidal space within the liner. Liquid metal fills the reservoir outside said liner. Electric current is passed through the liquid metal over a conductive path linking the toroidal space to produce a toroidal magnetic field within the toroidal space about the major axis thereof. Toroidal plasma is developed within the toroidal space about the major axis thereof.

• Research Organization: GA Technologies, Inc., San Diego, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AT03-76ET51011
• Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, DC)
• Patent Number(s): 4,305,783
• Application Number: 06/015962
• OSTI ID: 864072
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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