Annual technical progress report
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During the present contract period Phaedrus has begun operation as a true tandem mirror. This was accomplished by achieving the rf sustained mode in which the plug densities were built up by a combination of central cell gas puffing and plug ICRH following stream gun turn off. It was demonstrated that the tandem mirror plasma could be sustained by plug ICRH for up to 1 msec following decay of the external plasma. In this mode plasma characteristics were no longer dominated by problems associated with a high conductivity stream gun plasma in the external region (as was the case in many previous experiments in Phaedrus). Among these problems were (1) line tying which significantly reduced instabilities in a way that would not apply to reactors and (2) low electron temperatures which had been held to approx. 20 eV
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MF available from INIS under the Report Number; Available from NTIS., PC A04/MF A01 as DE82007942.
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Publishing Information
- Imprint Pagination
- 59 p.
- Report number
- DOE/ET/51015--T3
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 13693573
- Subject category
- S70: PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Progress Report
- Descriptors DEI
- ELECTRON TEMPERATURE; ICR HEATING; MAGNETIC FIELD CONFIGURATIONS; PLASMA DENSITY; PLASMA INSTABILITY; RESEARCH PROGRAMS; TMX DEVICES
- Descriptors DEC
- HEATING; HIGH-FREQUENCY HEATING; INSTABILITY; MAGNETIC MIRRORS; OPEN PLASMA DEVICES; PLASMA HEATING; THERMONUCLEAR DEVICES