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Making of the NSTX Facility
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This paper presents an overview of the construction and initial plasma operations of the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX) facility at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. Completed ahead of schedule and on budget, NSTX serves as a proof-of-principle fusion experimental device exploring spherical torus physics, high beta regimes, non-inductive current drive, and advanced confinement concepts.
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Title and Author Affiliations
Making of the NSTX Facility*
M. Ono, S.M. Kaye, C. Neumeyer, Y-K.M. Peng1, M. Williams, G. Barnes, M. Bell, J. Bialek2, T. Bigelow1, W. Blanchard, A. Brooks, M. D. Carter1, J. Chrzanowski, W. Davis, L. Dudek, R. Ellis, H.M. Fan, E. Fredd, D. Gates, T. Gibney, P. Goranson1, R. E. Hatcher, P. Heitzenroeder, J. Hosea, S. C. Jardin, T. Jarboe3, D. Johnson, M. Kalish, R. Kaita, C. Kessel, H. Kugel, R. Majeski, B. McCormack, R. Maingi1, J. Menard, R. Maqueda4, R. Marsala, D. Mueller, B. E. Nelson1, B. A. Nelson3, G. Oliaro, F. Paoletti2, R. Parsells, E. Perry, G. Pearson, S. Ramakrishnan, R. Raman3, J. Robinson, P. Roney, L. Roquemore, P. Ryan1, S. Sabbagh2, P. Sichta, T. Stevenson, D. Swain1, M. Viola, A. Von Halle, J.R. Wilson, G. Wurden4, S. Zweben, and the NSTX Team
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ 08543, USA
1 Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
2 Columbia University, New York, N.Y., USA
3 University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
4 Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, USA
* Work is supported by US Dept. of Energy contract No. DE-AC02-76CH03073
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This paper presents an overview of the construction and initial plasma operations of the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX) facility at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. Completed ahead of schedule and on budget, NSTX serves as a proof-of-principle fusion experimental device exploring sph...