Publication Type
Conference Paper
Book Title
Fusion Engineering, 1989. Proceedings., IEEE Thirteenth Symposium on
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Page Number
866
Conference Name
Fusion Engineering, 1989, IEEE Thirteenth Symposium on
Conference Location
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America
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Abstract
The START experiment (Small Tight Aspect Ratio Tokamak) is a low-budget device under construction that is specifically intended to investigate MHD behavior at extremely tight aspect ratios (as low as R/a-1.2) as well as the effectiveness of a major radius compression technique to produce high toroidal current in such plasmas. The main components of the START assembly are described along with the mode of operation.