Experimental results of the PLT Tokamak
Abstract
A survey of experimental work in progress on the PLT Tokamak is given. For a pulsed helium discharge, 35 kG toroidal field strength, 40 cm plasma radius, 450 kA plasma current, the plasma parameters observed near the end of the discharge were: center electron temperature = 1.2 keV, center ion temperature = 1.0 keV, effective ion charge = 3, center electron density = 1.1 times 10 to the 14th per cu cm, electron energy confinement time = 40 msec. Particle confinement time is not well known for pulsed-gas discharges, but was about 80 msec for similar cases without gas injection during the discharge.
- Publication:
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Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research 1976, Volume 1
- Pub Date:
- 1977
- Bibcode:
- 1977ppcf....1...21G
- Keywords:
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- Controlled Fusion;
- Plasma Diagnostics;
- Reactor Physics;
- Tokamak Devices;
- Electromagnetic Pulses;
- Helium;
- Nuclear Research;
- Toroidal Discharge;
- Plasma Physics