CTR plasma engineering studies. Annual progress report, 1 November 1982-30 October 1983

During FY 1983, much effort was devoted to work in support of alternate confinement concepts, especially those involving field reversal. This work includes: (1) study of possible steady-state operation of the Reversed Field Pinch (RFP) via driven dynamo action, (2) the development of particle and energy confinement scaling for the RFP and the Field Reversed Theta Pinch (FRTP), and (3) analysis of start-up (heating and plasma build) for the spheromak and Field Reversed Mirror (FRM). In addition, a block of projects were concerned with fusion product heating and the possible effects of fusion product-driven instability. These include: (1) effects of alpha-driven microinstabilities on heating in tokamaks, (2) exploratory studies of loss-cone-driven fusion product instabilities in tandem mirrors, and (3) fusion product transport, including effects of large angle scattering in reversed field devices such as the FRM