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    The Princeton Field Reversed Configuration (PFRC) is a series of experiments in plasma physics, an experimental program to evaluate a configuration for...
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    A field-reversed configuration (FRC) is a type of plasma device studied as a means of producing nuclear fusion. It confines a plasma on closed magnetic...
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    the Princeton field-reversed configuration reactor, invented in 2002 by Samuel A. Cohen. It is being modeled and experimentally tested at Princeton Plasma...
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    tokamak, the stellarator, and the reversed field pinch. Compact toroids, especially the field-reversed configuration and the spheromak, attempt to combine...
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    a fusion-enabled Pluto orbiter and lander based on the Princeton field-reversed configuration reactor. New Horizons imaged all of Pluto's northern hemisphere...
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  • DOE Scientific Simulation Initiative U.S. MHD Working Group Field Reversed Configuration (FRC) Theory Consortium Tokamak Physics Design and Analysis Codes...
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  • (satellite) Polymeric surfaces Polywell Ponderomotive force Princeton field-reversed configuration experiment Propulsive Fluid Accumulator, nuclear-powered...
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    Toroidal machines can be axially symmetric, like the tokamak and the reversed field pinch (RFP), or asymmetric, like the stellarator. The additional degree...
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    This is a helix configuration. Classical stellarator Also known as Princeton Model C, this stellarator generates a magnetic field by connecting the...
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  • An electropermanent magnet is a special configuration of magnetic materials where the external magnetic field can be turned on and off by applying a current...
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  • on this process. This fusion approach uses the magnetic field of a field-reversed configuration (FRC) plasmoid (operated with solid state electronics derived...
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    must also allow the time-reverse of this type of "realistic" black hole that forms from collapsing matter. The time-reversed case would be a white hole...
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    a field-reversed configuration (FRC) and a spheromak is that a spheromak has an internal toroidal field while the FRC plasma does not. This field can...
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    the speed and the charge are reversed then the direction of the force remains the same. For that reason a magnetic field measurement (by itself) cannot...
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  • are translated into morphisms in the second theory, but with direction reversed. Using the parlance of category theory, this amounts to a contravariant...
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    utilizing high magnetic fields. Nuclear technology portal Energy portal Edge-localized mode, a tokamak plasma instability Reversed-field pinch, an alternative...
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    Quantum Field Theory". arXiv:1203.3991v2 [math-ph]. Simon, Barry (1974). The P(phi)_2 Euclidean (quantum) field theory. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University...
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  • approach to fusion power". MIT News. Retrieved April 16, 2018. Laboratory, Princeton Plasma Physics (January 2, 2021). "Future Zero-Emissions Power Plants:...
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    known as the field-reversed configuration, or FRC, which has seen significant exploration. In this version, the induced magnetic fields are coaxed to...
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    classic magnetic mirror, a configuration of electromagnets is used to create an area with an increasing density of magnetic field lines at either end of a...
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    toroidal field and as such are impractical for fusion neutron devices. Compact toroids, e.g. the spheromak and the Field-Reversed Configuration, attempt...
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    maintain a permanent electric polarization that can be reversed, or switched, in an external electric field. Ferroelectric polymers, such as polyvinylidene fluoride...
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    Fire – Christofilos and the Astron Project in America's Fusion Program, Princeton University Junior Thesis Ivoox.com Pictures of Nicholas Christofilos...
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    only was there a clear directionality to their release, it reversed when the current was reversed. This suggested the neutrons were a result of the electric...
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    Higgs boson (redirect from Higgs Field)
    instability: Any configuration in which one or more field excitations are tachyonic must spontaneously decay, and the resulting configuration contains no physical...
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    time-varying electromagnetic field that transmits power across space to a receiver device; the receiver device extracts power from the field and supplies it to...
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    wedge (also called flying V or wedge formation, or simply wedge) is a configuration created from a body moving forward in a triangular formation. This V-shaped...
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  • power. Tri Alpha Energy, founded in 1998, began by exploring a field-reversed configuration approach. In 2002, Canadian company General Fusion began proof-of-concept...
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    unrationalized (and unlike Heaviside–Lorentz units), the situation is reversed: two of Maxwell's equations have factors of 4π in the formulas, while both...
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    electrode is strong enough to arrest the reactions. A larger opposing field can reverse the reactions in what are called reversible cells. The electric charge...
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