Refueling Tokamaks by Injection of Compact Toroids
- 19 September 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 61 (12) , 1364-1367
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.61.1364
Abstract
It is shown that transverse injection of a hypervelocity high-density spheromak plasmoid into a tokamak plasma may be a viable fueling scheme. Three important processes occur and are discussed individually: establishment of equilibrium, slowing down, and disassembly of the compact toroid.Keywords
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