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’Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house
No electrons were flowing through even my mouse.
All devices were plugged by the chimney with care
With the hope that St. Nikola Tesla would share.
W. M. Stacey, Jr., K. Evans, Jr.
Nuclear Technology | Volume 32 | Number 2 | February 1977 | Pages 142-154
Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT77-A31719
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A survey has been made of the toroidal magnetic field strength requirements in a tokamak reactor as a function of size, confinement, temperature, safety factor, aspect ratio, and cross-sectional shape. The maximum field strengths consistent with reasonable limitations on the wall-loading and plasma-driving system and the minimum field strengths necessary for predicted confinement were determined along with the associated power output and an indication of the magnet cost. It was found that a maximum toroidal field at the coil of 80 kG (8 T) may be adequate for large-scale reactors. Fields in excess of 100 kG (10 T) would only be required for reactors in the intermediate-size range (major radius ∼7 m).