Title :
Neutral beam injection requirements and design issues for the National Compact Stellarator Experiment
Author :
Kugel, H.W. ; Neilson, H. ; Reiersen, W. ; Zarnstorff, M. ; Cole, M.
Author_Institution :
Plasma Phys. Lab., Princeton Univ., NJ, USA
Abstract :
NCSX will require 6 MW of 50 keV neutral beam injection with initial pulse lengths of 500 msec and upgradeable to pulse lengths of 1.5 sec. This paper discusses the NCSX NBI requirements and design issues, and shows how these are provided by the candidate PBX-M NBI system.
Keywords :
fusion reactor design; plasma beam injection heating; stellarators; 1.5 s; 50 keV; 500 ms; NCSX; National Compact Stellarator Experiment; PBX-M; neutral beam injection; pulse length; Heating; Ion sources; Laboratories; Particle beam injection; Physics; Plasma confinement; Plasma devices; Plasma sources; Plasma stability; Plasma temperature;
Conference_Titel :
Fusion Engineering, 2002. 19th Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7073-2
DOI :
10.1109/FUSION.2002.1027644
