Big Dee - A Flexible Facility Operating Near Breakeven Conditions
- 1 July 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Fusion Technology
- Vol. 8 (1P2A) , 441-449
- https://doi.org/10.13182/fst85-a40083
Abstract
The Doublet III tokamak facility is presently undergoing an upgrade to Big Dee, a device projected to be capable of producing plasmas with parameters approaching breakeven conditions, albeit in hydrogen plasmas. The goal of the upgrade has been to develop a facility capable of studying confinement and beta in non-circular discharges at parameters near breakeven conditions while maintaining the flexibility and accessibility necessary to allow a wide range of problems to be addressed. The upgrade replaces the vacuum vessel and outermost plasma shaping coils allowing higher plasma currents and improved access.Keywords
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