Assembly of LTX Underway
PPPL’s Current
Drive Experiment
-Upgr ade
(CDX-U) machine completed
its last phase of experiments
in July 2005. It
is now being converted to
a new device, the Lithium
Tokamak Experiment
(LTX), which will begin
operation in mid-2008. The LTX will continue promising, innovative work started on CDX-U in 2000, involving the use of pure lithium metal on surfaces facing or contacting the plasma.
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Fusion Power
For centuries, the way in which the sun and stars produce their energy remained a mystery to man. During the twentieth century, scientists
discovered that they produce their energy through the fusion of light atoms.
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National Compact Stellarator Experiment (NCSX)
Magnetic fusion energy researchers must find the best shape for the hot reacting plasma and the magnetic fields that hold it in place. Dramatic advances in magnetic confinement physics and computation capabilities have yielded a promising
new configuration — the compact stellarator. A new experimental facility, the National Compact Stellarator Experiment (NCSX), is planned as the centerpiece of the U.S. effort to develop the physics and to determine the attractiveness of the compact stellarator as the basis for a fusion power reactor.
NCSX is being built at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) in partnership with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).
"Statement on NCSX" - Dr. Raymond Orbach.
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National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX)
The National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX) at
the U. S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma
Physics Laboratory (PPPL) is yielding data that may
provide an attractive path for the development of fusion energy
as an abundant, safe, and environmentally sound means of
generating electricity for the long term. The NSTX device is
being used to explore a novel magnetic fusion concept that may
lead to practical fusion energy at reduced cost. A national team
comprised of 30 U.S. fusion research institutions is performing
the experiments. Scientists from the U.K., Japan, Russia,
Korea, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, and Czech Republic also
participate.
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The Magnetic Reconnection Experiment
The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) Magnetic Reconnection
Experiment (MRX) was built to study a fundamental
plasma process in a controlled
laboratory environment. A plasma is a hot, ionized gas that can be confined using a magnetic field. Plasmas are often
considered to be the fourth state of matter after solids, liquids, and gases, and account for more than 99 percent of the visible universe.
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