Title :
Design of the START experiment
Author :
Smith, R.T.C. ; Booth, J.A. ; Haynes, P.S. ; Hender, T.C. ; Hicks, J.B. ; Sykes, A. ; Todd, T.N. ; Peng, Y.K.M. ; Whitson, J.
Author_Institution :
Culham Lab., UKAEA, Abingdon, UK
Abstract :
The START experiment (Small Tight Aspect Ratio Tokamak) is a low-budget device under construction that is specifically intended to investigate MHD behavior at extremely tight aspect ratios (as low as R/a-1.2) as well as the effectiveness of a major radius compression technique to produce high toroidal current in such plasmas. The main components of the START assembly are described along with the mode of operation
Keywords :
fusion reactor operation; fusion reactor theory and design; plasma magnetohydrodynamics; plasma toroidal confinement; MHD behavior; START experiment; Small Tight Aspect Ratio Tokamak; high toroidal current; low-budget device; major radius compression technique; operation; Assembly; Coils; Conductors; Copper; Floors; Iron; Laboratories; Physics; Pulse transformers; Wounds;
Conference_Titel :
Fusion Engineering, 1989. Proceedings., IEEE Thirteenth Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Knoxville, TN
DOI :
10.1109/FUSION.1989.102355
