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    COMPASS, short for Compact Assembly, is a compact tokamak fusion energy device originally completed at the Culham Science Centre in 1989, upgraded in...
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    A tokamak (/ˈtoʊkəmæk/; Russian: токамáк) is a device which uses a powerful magnetic field generated by external magnets to confine plasma in the shape...
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  • experiment at CERN COMPASS tokamak, an experimental facility of Tokamak department of Institute of Plasma Physics AS CR Grid Compass, the first laptop...
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    used in plasma physics, notably in tokamaks such as CASTOR, (Czech Academy of Sciences Torus) ASDEX Upgrade, COMPASS, ISTTOK, MAST, TJ-K, RFX, H-1 Heliac...
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    Detachment tomographic inversion study with fast visible cameras on the COMPASS tokamak (Bachelor's thesis). Czech Technical University in Prague. hdl:10467/111617...
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  • Resonant magnetic perturbations (category Tokamaks)
    ELMs for very narrow ranges of the plasma current. Plasma instability COMPASS tokamak NSTX-U, also uses RMPs to control ELMs T.E. Evans; et al. (2004). "Suppression...
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    Retrieved 2018-09-04. "Tokamak Department, Institute of Plasma Physics". 2014-05-12. Archived from the original on 2014-05-12. "COMPASS – General information"...
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  • Its stated goal is to build a small fusion power plant based on the ARC tokamak design. It has participated in the United States Department of Energy’s...
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    divertor or diverted configuration is a magnetic field configuration of a tokamak or a stellarator which separates the confined plasma from the material...
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  • West in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. West is a cardinal direction or compass point. West or The West may also refer to: The Western world Western culture...
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  • spread-out fusion efforts. He led the effort to build the UK's own tokamak, COMPASS. When experiments suggested that non-circular confinement areas would...
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    The beta limit, for example, sets the maximum achievable plasma beta in tokamaks. On the other hand, small-scale plasma instabilities (typically described...
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    tested on ZETA, and was later used to confirm the results of the Soviet tokamak approach. In another, while examining ZETA test runs it was noticed that...
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    Atomic Energy Commission shut the program down in 1977 to focus on the tokamak and magnetic mirror. Some of the lack of interest in theta since the 1970s...
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  • East in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. East is a cardinal direction or compass point. East or the East may also refer to: East Bay, a portion of the San...
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  • ISBN 978-1-908977-43-4. Furth, Harold (30 April 1981). "Father of the tokamak". New Scientist. Vol. 90, no. 1251. pp. 274–276. Braams, C. M.; Stott,...
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    used as a nuclear fusion fuel, along with more abundant deuterium, in tokamak reactors and in hydrogen bombs. Tritium was first detected in 1934 by Ernest...
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    development, the other being magnetic confinement fusion (MCF), notably the tokamak concept which is being built in a major experimental system known as ITER...
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  • Exhibition. 1950: The Toroidal chamber with axial magnetic fields (the Tokamak) is developed by Igor E. Tamm and Andrei D. Sakharov. 1952: The float glass...
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  • measurements in space plasma Fran Bošnjaković Jana Brotankova COMPASS CASTOR tokamak,GOLEM tokamak Franklin Chang-Diaz created the Variable Specific Impulse...
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  • the 1950s and 60s, with a strong physical resemblance to the z-pinch and tokamak devices. The major difference was that it used radio waves to heat the...
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  • explosively pumped flux compression generator, co-developed the Tsar Bomb and tokamak Jonas Edward Salk (1914–1995), U.S. – injection Polio vaccine Robert Salmon...
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    mirror Bumpy torus Reversed field pinch Spheromak Stellarator Theta pinch Tokamak Spherical Toroidal solenoid Z-pinch Inertial Bubble (acoustic) Laser-driven...
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  • his development of multi-current or doublet approach to the design of tokamaks with non-circular cross sections and for investigation of plasma confinement...
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