Alcator C-Mod was a tokamak (a type of magnetically confined fusion device) that operated between 1991 and 2016 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
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7 GHz (Joint European Torus, WEST (formerly Tore Supra)), 4.6 GHz (Alcator C, Alcator C-Mod, EAST, DIII-D), 5 GHz (KSTAR, ITER) and 8 GHz (Frascati Tokamak...
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density due to hydrogen minority ion cyclotron resonance heating on Alcator C-Mod". Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 54 (4): 045004. Bibcode:2012PPCF...
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of a tokamak reactor Alcator A, the first in a series of small, high-field tokamaks, followed by Alcator C (1978) and Alcator C-Mod (1993). MIT's most recent...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (redirect from MIT C.A.E.S.)
towing tank for testing ship and ocean structure designs, and previously Alcator C-Mod, which was the largest fusion device operated by any university. MIT's...
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PMC 5141350. PMID 27901043. Wolf, R. C.; Alonso, A.; Äkäslompolo, S.; Baldzuhn, J.; Beurskens, M.; Beidler, C. D.; Biedermann, C.; Bosch, H.-S.; Bozhenkov, S...
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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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Los Angeles, US 1999–2014: MAST, in Culham, United Kingdom 1992–2016: Alcator C-Mod, MIT, Cambridge, US 1995–2013: HT-7, at the Institute of Plasma Physics...
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Science and Fusion Center (United States). It previously operated the Alcator C-Mod tokamak between 1991 and 2016, and is currently building the SPARC tokamak...
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during operation. Molybdenum is used for the first wall material in Alcator C-Mod (1991). Liquid lithium (LL) was used to coat the PFC of the Tokamak...
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anything but the simplest, highly-symmetric structures. Both MIT's Alcator C-Mod tokamak and the Joint European Torus (JET) have experimented with adding...
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1970s Alcator machine at MIT which pioneered the high magnetic field approach to plasma magnetic confinement, continued with the Alcator C/C-Mod at MIT...
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original on 2006-04-24. "MIT Plasma Science & Fusion Center: research>alcator>". 2015-07-09. Archived from the original on 2015-07-09. "Centro de Fusão...
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and will continue to be investigated in experiments such as DIII-D, Alcator C-Mod, NSTX, and MAST. New stellarator experiments such as NCSX (proposed)...
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a class of designs known as the "compact tokamak", typified by the Alcator C-Mod (operational since 1991), the Riggatron (conceptual, unbuilt) and IGNITOR...
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Bibcode:1958PhFl....1..253S. doi:10.1063/1.1705883. Retrieved 2024-10-23. Burnett, C. R.; Grove, D. J.; Palladino, R. W.; Stix, T. H.; Wakefield, K. E. (1958)...
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temperature of the target chamber's inner wall is raised from 600 °C (1,112 °F) to 800 °C (1,470 °F). The target chamber is a two-wall structure filled with...
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Journal of Nuclear Energy C. 2 (1): 81. Bibcode:1961JNuE....2...81C. doi:10.1088/0368-3281/2/1/311. Crowley-Milling, M. C. (1993). John Bertram Adams...
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International ITER DEMO PROTO Americas STOR-M Alcator C-Mod ARC SPARC DIII-D Electric Tokamak LTX NSTX PLT TFTR Pegasus Riggatron SSPX ETE TCABR Novillo [es]...
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"Edge energy transport barrier and turbulence in the I-mode regime on Alcator C-Mod", Physics of Plasmas, 18 (5) 056115, Bibcode:2011PhPl...18e6115H, doi:10...
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frequency heating and noninductive current drive on the Versator II, the Alcator C and C-Mod tokamaks, Professor Porkolab shared the 1984 American Physical Society...
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; Kishimoto, H.; Nakazato, N.; Park, J. S.; Jung, H. C.; Kohno, Y.; Kohyama, A. (2012). "SiC/SiC composite heater for IFMIF". Fusion Engineering and Design...
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the relevance of the drifts. In the late 1990s, it was found in the Alcator C-Mod tokamak that plasma-wall contact was much larger than expected, revealing...
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of the Alcator C-Mod tokamak Development of Probes for Assessment of Ion Heat Transport and Sheath Heat Flux in the Boundary of the Alcator C-Mod Tokamak[permanent...
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21 October – MIT announces a new record for plasma pressure in an Alcator C-Mod tokamak nuclear fusion reactor, achieving over 2 atmospheres of pressure...
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List of plasma physics articles (section C)
Atmospheric-pressure plasma treatment Ayaks, Novel "Magneto-plasmo-chemical engine" Alcator C-Mod Alfvén wave Ambipolar diffusion Aneutronic fusion Anisothermal plasma...
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Bäcklund Albert von Ettingshausen Albrecht Fölsing Albrecht Unsöld Alcator C-Mod Alcubierre drive Aldert van der Ziel Alec Merrison Alejandro Corichi...
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"Father of the tokamak". New Scientist. Vol. 90, no. 1251. pp. 274–276. Braams, C. M.; Stott, P. E. (2002). Nuclear Fusion: Half a Century of Magnetic Confinement...
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Institute of Technology (MIT) for graduate studies, working on the Alcator C-Mod and then earning a masters degree in 1993. He later moved to Auburn...
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avoid the project being detected by NACA's headquarters in Washington, D.C., as they believed it would immediately be cancelled if their superiors learned...
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