The Model C stellarator was the first large-scale stellarator to be built, during the early stages of fusion power research. Planned since 1952, construction...
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performance. After debate within the US industry, PPPL converted the Model C stellarator to the Symmetrical Tokamak (ST) as a way to confirm or deny these...
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their tokamaks generated intense scepticism, and to test it, PPPL's Model C stellarator was converted to a tokamak. It verified the Soviet claims, and since...
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it was some time before the PPPL was convinced to convert their Model C stellarator to the tokamak configuration. It immediately validated the Soviet...
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The National Compact Stellarator Experiment, NCSX in short, was a magnetic fusion energy experiment based on the stellarator design being constructed...
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List of fusion experiments (section Stellarator)
tokamak and the reversed field pinch (RFP), or asymmetric, like the stellarator. The additional degree of freedom gained by giving up toroidal symmetry...
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of their Model C stellarator being just about perfect for such a conversion. They continued to offer a long list of reasons why the Model C should not...
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first fusion in a tokamak device. 1970 Princeton's conversion of the Model C stellarator to the Symmetrical Tokamak is completed, and tests match and then...
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of his research at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (see Model C stellarator). In 1978, Stix was appointed associate director for academic affairs...
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History of nuclear fusion (section Stellarator)
Princeton group, which converted their stellarator to a tokamak. Princeton's conversion of the Model C stellarator to a tokamak produced results matching...
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clear that ZETA was going to come online in mid-1957, beating the Model C stellarator and the newest versions of the Perhapsatron and Columbus. Because...
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Kastner, R.; Kessel, C. (October 1, 2011). "Prospects for pilot plants based on the tokamak, spherical tokamak and stellarator". Nuclear Fusion. 51 (10):...
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Magnetic confinement fusion (section Stellarators)
stellarator vanished, and the latest design at Princeton University, the Model C, was eventually converted to the Symmetrical Tokamak. Stellarators have...
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Wendelstein 7-X (redirect from Stellarator Wendelstein)
The Wendelstein 7-X (abbreviated W7-X) reactor is an experimental stellarator built in Greifswald, Germany, by the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics...
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Furth's boss, Mel Gottlieb, eventually convinced him to convert their Model C stellarator to a tokamak, even if just to prove the Soviets wrong. It didn't;...
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campaigns by December of that year. HIDRA is the former WEGA classical stellarator that was operated at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Greifswald...
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including devices such as the Adiabatic Toroidal Compressor (ATC), Model C Stellarator, and the Poloidal Divertor Experiment (PDX). In 1984, she retired...
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neutron diffusion in reactors. He made one of the first design of the Model D stellarator with for fusion power. Tonks retired in from General Electrics in...
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At present, it is Germany's second largest fusion experiment after stellarator Wendelstein 7-X. To make experiments under reactor-like conditions possible...
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be investigated in experiments such as DIII-D, Alcator C-Mod, NSTX, and MAST. New stellarator experiments such as NCSX (proposed) will test the prediction...
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Theta pinch (section High-beta stellarator)
different from the stellarator to be interesting. This solution had not been considered very deeply given the simplicity of the stellarator concept compared...
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laser beam. An upgraded Thomson scattering system in the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator uses Nd:YAG lasers to emit multiple pulses in quick succession. The intervals...
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Doody, J.; Fülöp, T.; Garnier, D. T.; Granetz, R.; Gray, T. K.; Holland, C. (2020). "Overview of the SPARC tokamak". Journal of Plasma Physics. 86 (5)...
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Magnetohydrodynamics (category Plasma theory and modeling)
phenomena occurring in fusion plasmas in devices such as tokamaks or stellarators. The Grad-Shafranov equation derived from ideal MHD describes the equilibrium...
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to this point was the stellarator, whose development was limited almost entirely to the PPPL. Their latest design, the Model C, had recently gone into...
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Dudarev, S.L.; Zheng, S.; Packer, L.W.; Sublet, J.-Ch. (2012). "An integrated model for materials in a fusion power plant: transmutation, gas production, and...
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developed at Columbia University Columbia Non-neutral Torus, a small stellarator at the Columbia University Plasma Physics Laboratory Columbia-Princeton...
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Interchange instability (section Simple models)
new mirror designs, as well as modifications to other designs like the stellarator to add negative curvature. These had cusp-shaped fields so that the plasma...
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Nuclear photonic rocket Project Pluto Pulsed nuclear thermal rocket Stellarator Bonometti, Joseph A.; P. Jeff Morton. "External Pulsed Plasma Propulsion...
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Jersey, where Van Allen was on sabbatical leave from Iowa to work on stellarator design. Van Allen later recounted, "Stuhlinger’s 1954 message was simple...
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