Studies on the heating and containment of plasma in a magnetic trap : the behaviour of a slow toroidal o - z pinch
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1970
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Bowers, David Lloyd
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The suggestion that thermonuclear reactions were the
energy source of stars was made in 1928 by Atkinson and
Houtermans , but it was not until the end of World War II that
serious consideration was given to the possibility of controlled
production of thermonuclear power. It was apparent
that any likely fusion reactor would entail the use of magnetic
fields to insulate the hot plasma from the walls of
the containing vessel, and experiments were begun in several
countries to investigate the heating and confinement of
hot conducting gas in a magnetic field. One early suggestion
was to utilise the self magnetic field of a discharge
current for both of these purposes . Bennett, in 1934,
had obtained an expression for the pressure balance in the
self-constriction or "pinching" of a high current gaseous
discharge by its own magnetic field, but no experimental
investigations were reported until 1951, when Cousins and
Ware demonstrated the pinch effect in a small glass
torus.
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