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A stellarator is a magnetic confinement device. | A stellarator is a magnetic confinement device. The rotational transform is predominantly generated by external coils - differently to tokamaks for which the poloidal field is generated by plasma currents. Hybrid concepts employ both external coils and self-generated (boot-strap) currents. An example is NCSX. | ||
[[File:NCSX_plasmaVessel.jpg|200px|thumb|right|NCSX plasma vessel.]] | [[File:NCSX_plasmaVessel.jpg|200px|thumb|right|NCSX plasma vessel.]] | ||
Revision as of 20:16, 22 October 2009
A stellarator is a magnetic confinement device. The rotational transform is predominantly generated by external coils - differently to tokamaks for which the poloidal field is generated by plasma currents. Hybrid concepts employ both external coils and self-generated (boot-strap) currents. An example is NCSX.
Defunct stellarators
- ATF (USA)
- W7-AS (Germany, 1988-2002)
- CHS (Japan)
- NCSX (USA, cancelled before construction was completed)
Operational stellarators
- LHD (Japan)
- TJ-II (Spain)
- HSX (USA)
- H-1NF (Australia)
- TJ-K (Germany) - formerly TJ-IU
- WEGA (Germany)
- CAT (Auburn, USA)
- UST-1 (Spain, tabletop)