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There is extra significance to the American Nuclear Society holding its annual meeting in Orlando, Florida, this past week. That’s because in 1967, the state of Florida passed a law allowing Disney World to build a nuclear power plant.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 27 | Number 3 | April 1995 | Pages 353-356
Compact Torus (Field-Reversed Configuration, Spheromak) Concepts | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A11947104
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Equilibrium shape of a field-reversed-configuration plasma is controlled to maximize its poloidal flux. Plasma elongation is changed from 7.5 to 4.5 by adding a local field to the plasma due to the introduction of a control coil. The control field strength is about 10% of the confinement field. The plasma shape modifies while keeping its volume and the product of its poloidal flux and elongation constant. The poloidal flux is twice that of the uncontrolled plasma. Its flux confinement time also improved.
