ECRH — Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating Contributor: CASI … NASA Acronyms
Microwave — This article is about the electromagnetic wave. For the cooking appliance, see Microwave oven. For other uses, see Microwaves (disambiguation). A microwave telecommunications tower on Wrights Hill in Wellington, New Zealand Microwaves, a subset… … Wikipedia
KSTAR — The KSTAR, or Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research is a magnetic fusion device being built at the National Fusion Research Institute in Daejon, South Korea. It is intended to study aspects of magnetic fusion energy which will be… … Wikipedia
Large Helical Device — Das Large Helical Device (abgekürzt LHD, jap. 大型ヘリカル装置, ōgata herikaru sōchi) ist ein Experiment zur Kernfusion, das seit 1998 in Toki in Japan betrieben wird. Als Experiment zur Grundlagenforschung und zur Technologieentwicklung gewinnt LHD… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Tokamak — A tokamak is a machine producing a toroidal magnetic field for confining a plasma. It is one of several types of magnetic confinement devices, and it is one of the most researched candidates for producing controlled thermonuclear fusion power.… … Wikipedia
Large Helical Device — Infobox Plasma confinement device name = LHD device type = Heliotron major radius = 3.5–4.1 m minor radius = 0.6 m magnetic field = 3T max pressure = ?? max temp = 2.2 keV? max confinement time = 0.36 s first plasma = 1998 location = Japan |The… … Wikipedia
Contract for difference — In finance, a contract for difference (or CFD) is a contract between two parties, typically described as buyer and seller , stipulating that the buyer will pay to the seller the difference between the current value of an asset and its value at… … Wikipedia
Neutral Beam Injection — In order to initiate a sustained fusion reaction, it is usually necessary to use many methods to heat the plasma, including RF heating, electron cyclotron resonance heating (ECRH), ion cyclotron resonance heating (ICRH), and neutral beam… … Wikipedia
ASDEX Upgrade — The ASDEX Upgrade divertor tokamak (Axially Symmetric Divertor EXperiment) went into operation at the Max Planck Institut für Plasmaphysik, Garching in 1991. At present, it is Germany s largest fusion device. Overview To make experiments under… … Wikipedia
Tokamak à configuration variable — The Tokamak à configuration variable ( variable configuration tokamak , TCV) is a research fusion reactor (tokamak) of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne. Its particularity is that its torus section is three times higher than wide. This … Wikipedia
