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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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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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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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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List of fusion experiments (section Tokamak)
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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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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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 (section Tokamak divertors)
nuclear fusion research. A tokamak featuring a divertor is known as a divertor tokamak or divertor configuration tokamak. In this configuration, the...
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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: Eastern world, or the East or...
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Derek Robinson (physicist) (section COMPASS and STs)
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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Theta pinch (section Theta vs. tokamak)
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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used as a nuclear fusion fuel, along with more abundant deuterium, in tokamak reactors and in hydrogen bombs. Tritium has also been used commercially...
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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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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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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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explosively pumped flux compression generator, co-developed the Tsar Bomba and tokamak Jonas Edward Salk (1914–1995), U.S. – injection Polio vaccine Robert Salmon...
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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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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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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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Bumpy torus Pinch Dense plasma focus Reversed field Theta Zeta Stellarator Tokamak Spherical Spheromak Dynomak Toroidal solenoid Magneto-inertial Magnetized...
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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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