Model C stellarator

The Model C stellarator was an important stellarator operating at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory from 1961-69.[1]

Design parameters

The Model C had a racetrack shape. The total length (of the tube axis?) was 1.2m. The plasma could have a 5-7.5 cm minor radius. Magnetic coils could produce a toroidal field (along the tube) of 35,000 Gauss.[1] It was only capable of pulsed operation.

It had a divertor in one of the straight sections. In the other it could inject 4 MW of 25 MHz ion cyclotron resonance heating (ICRH).

It had helical windings on the curved sections.

Results

An average ion temperature of 400 eV was reached in 1969.

History

Construction funding/approval was announced in April 1957.[2]

Starts operating March 1962.[3]

The Model C was reconfigured as a tokamak in 1969,[1] becoming the Symmetric Tokamak (ST).[4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Highlights in Early Stellarator Research at Princeton. Stix. 1997
  2. ↑ Princeton Alumni Weekly, Volume 57. April 19. p9
  3. ↑ See 1962
  4. ↑ See 1969,1970

Further reading

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