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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

plasma focus Reversed field Theta Zeta Stellarator Tokamak Spherical Spheromak Dynomak Toroidal solenoid Magneto-inertial Magnetized liner Magnetized...

plasma focus Reversed field Theta Zeta Stellarator Tokamak Spherical Spheromak Dynomak Toroidal solenoid Magneto-inertial Magnetized liner Magnetized...

plasma sintering Spaser Spectral imaging Spectral line Spherical tokamak Spheromak Spinplasmonics Spontaneous emission Spreeta Sprite (lightning) Sputter...

plasma focus Reversed field Theta Zeta Stellarator Tokamak Spherical Spheromak Dynomak Toroidal solenoid Magneto-inertial Magnetized liner Magnetized...

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

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

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...

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

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

2017. Retrieved 17 January 2017. "Magnetic Compression and Stability of Spheromaks". Mitacs. 17 November 2014. Retrieved 17 April 2017. Gibbs, Wayt (18 October...

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

heat in tokamak-based fusion power to improved understanding of jets and spheromaks in the solar corona. She works for the United States Department of Energy...

Laboratory (PPPL), where he and Robert Ellis led the development of the Spheromak S-1, a compact toroidal device for plasma confinement from 1978 to 1988...

Yamada, M. (1986). "Verification of the Taylor (minimum energy) state in a spheromak". The Physics of Fluids. 29 (6): 1994–1997. Bibcode:1986PhFl...29.1994H...

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...