A spheromak is an arrangement of plasma formed into a toroidal shape similar to a smoke ring. The spheromak contains large internal electric currents...

spheromak. Both are considered part of the compact toroid class of fusion devices. FRCs normally have a plasma that is more elongated than spheromaks...

Spheromak Physics Experiment (SSPX) is a program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the United States established to investigate spheromak plasma...

built. One way to do this quickly would be to convert a spheromak machine to the ST layout. Spheromaks are essentially "smoke rings" of plasma that are internally...

Dynomak is a spheromak fusion reactor concept developed by the University of Washington using U.S. Department of Energy funding. A dynomak is defined...

as the first purpose-built spherical tokamak. This was essentially a spheromak with an inserted central rod. START produced impressive results, with...

Tsukuba, Japan KTX (Keda Torus eXperiment) in China (since 2015) Sustained Spheromak Physics Experiment C-2 Tri Alpha Energy C-2U Tri Alpha Energy C-2W TAE...

8×1011 m/s2) in a toroid of 1 meter in diameter. The toroids are similar to spheromaks, but differ in that an inner conductor is used to accelerate the plasma...

some explanations for ball lightning. An EST may be a special case of a spheromak. Because of EST's claimed lack of need for an external stabilizing magnetic...

expensive fusion reactors. The two best studied compact toroids are the spheromak and field-reversed configuration (FRC). A third configuration, the particle...

proposed that a spheromak could be formed by inducing a magnetic flux into a loop plasma. The plasma would then relax naturally into a spheromak also known...

field. A spheromak has both toroidal and poloidal fields, while a field-reversed configuration has no toroidal field. Dynomak is a spheromak that is formed...

wave Marklund convection Plasma parameters Plasma stability Solar wind Spheromak Walter Sullivan (April 5, 1995). "Hannes Alfven, 86, Founder Of Field...

Plasmoids produced in the laboratory include field-reversed configurations, spheromaks, and in dense plasma focuses. The word plasmoid was coined in 1956 by...

configurations, including the tokamak, ST, reversed field pinch (RFP), spheromak, and possibly the FRC. In the advanced tokamak and ST, wall stabilization...

configuration Levitated dipole Magnetic mirror Bumpy torus Reversed field pinch Spheromak Stellarator Theta pinch Tokamak Spherical Toroidal solenoid Z-pinch Inertial...

concept and get a test machine built. One approach would be to convert a spheromak.:225 Peng's advocacy caught the interest of Derek Robinson, of the United...

configuration Levitated dipole Magnetic mirror Bumpy torus Reversed field pinch Spheromak Stellarator Theta pinch Tokamak Spherical Toroidal solenoid Z-pinch Inertial...

Committee, in which he and Japanese plasma physicist Masaaki Yamada led the Spheromak project. Other professional appointments included: Member, the Science...

Reversed field pinch (MST, RFX-Mod Italy) Spherical tokamak (MAST, NSTX) Spheromak (SSPX Lawrence Livermore) Stellarator (Wendelstein 7-X) Non-neutral plasma...

experimental projects at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory; co-led the Spheromak project Igor Grabec Exploration of unstable ionization waves (striations)...

configuration Levitated dipole Magnetic mirror Bumpy torus Reversed field pinch Spheromak Stellarator Theta pinch Tokamak Spherical Toroidal solenoid Z-pinch Inertial...

Helium Mixtures Immersed in Aerogel." Cameron Geddes Swarthmore College "Spheromak Equilibrium Studies on SSX." 1998 Brian Richard D'Urso Gwendolyn Rae Bell...

used per pulse. The gas is ionized by a bank of capacitors to form a spheromak plasma (self-confined magnetized plasma rings) composed of the deuterium–tritium...

fermions have been suggested as plausible candidates for cold dark matter. Spheromak Dynamic toroidal dipole Anapole Radescu, E. Jr.; Vaman, G. (2012), "Cartesian...

recently been involved in magnetic fusion research at the LLNL's Sustained Spheromak Physics Experiment (SSPX).[citation needed] Lindl is a fellow of the American...

Spherical multipole moments Spherical tokamak Spherically symmetric spacetime Spheromak Spider (polarimeter) Spin-destruction collision Spin-flip Spin-orbital...

Soldier. CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-4200-3357-1. Bellan, Paul (January 2000). Spheromaks. World Scientific. ISBN 978-1-78326-219-9. Bennett, Willard H. (1934)...

configuration Levitated dipole Magnetic mirror Bumpy torus Reversed field pinch Spheromak Stellarator Theta pinch Tokamak Spherical Toroidal solenoid Z-pinch Inertial...

(2008). "Energy confinement and magnetic field generation in the SSPX spheromak". Physics of Plasmas. 15 (5): 056112. Bibcode:2008PhPl...15e6112H. doi:10...