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’Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house
No electrons were flowing through even my mouse.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 27 | Number 3 | April 1995 | Pages 337-340
Compact Torus (Field-Reversed Configuration, Spheromak) Concepts | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A11947100
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The possibility to minimize in principle the weight overall and output characteristics of D-3He fueled Fusion Reactor (FR) on the base of plasma Field Reversed Configuration (FRC) is analyzed. It is shown, that with the optimistic outlook on an FRC plasma confinement improvement prospects, the FR specific mass of about 5 kg/kW at electric power of Pe≌300 MW can be achieved.
