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* [http://fusion.auburn.edu/ CAT/CTH] (Auburn, USA) | * [http://fusion.auburn.edu/ CAT/CTH] (Auburn, USA) | ||
* [http://prl.anu.edu.au/H-1NF H-1NF] (Canberra, Australia) | * [http://prl.anu.edu.au/H-1NF H-1NF] (Canberra, Australia) | ||
* Heliotron-J (Kyoto, Japan) | * [http://www.center.iae.kyoto-u.ac.jp/plasma/index.html Heliotron-J] (Kyoto, Japan) | ||
* [http://www.hsx.wisc.edu/ HSX] (Madison, WI, USA) | * [http://www.hsx.wisc.edu/ HSX] (Madison, WI, USA) | ||
* [http://www.lhd.nifs.ac.jp/en/ LHD] (Toki, Japan) | * [http://www.lhd.nifs.ac.jp/en/ LHD] (Toki, Japan) | ||
Revision as of 16:58, 5 July 2010
A stellarator is a magnetic confinement device. The rotational transform is predominantly generated by external coils - as opposed to a tokamak, in which the poloidal field is generated by plasma currents. Hybrid concepts (including the concepts known as quasi-axisymmetry and quasi-omnigeneity) employ both external coils and self-generated (bootstrap) currents (e.g. NCSX).
Defunct stellarators
- ATF (Oak Ridge, TN, USA)
- CHS (Japan)
- NCSX (Princeton, NJ, USA) - cancelled before construction was completed
- W7-AS (Garching, Germany, 1988-2002)
Operational stellarators
- CAT/CTH (Auburn, USA)
- H-1NF (Canberra, Australia)
- Heliotron-J (Kyoto, Japan)
- HSX (Madison, WI, USA)
- LHD (Toki, Japan)
- TJ-II (Madrid, Spain)
- TJ-K (Stuttgart, Germany) - formerly TJ-IU
- TU Heliac (Tohoku Univ., Sendai, Japan)
- UST-1 (Spain) - tabletop experiment
- WEGA (Greifswald, Germany)
Future stellarators
See also
- Stellarator reactor
- International Stellarator and Heliotron Workshop
- Stellarator symmetry
- Stellarator News
- ARIES Project (conceptual design of a compact stellarator)
- Spherical Stellarator design study