NSTX
Fusion Approach
Key Technologies
Publications Describing Device
Overview of the Initial NSTX Experimental Results
Transition to ELM-free improved H-mode by lithium deposition on NSTX graphite divertor surfaces
Description
The National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX) was a spherical tokamak built at PPPL. It began operations in February of 1999. The NSTX device was built with the objective of studying the behavior of the spherical tokamak configuration in the mega ampere regime. It was designed to work with a confinement magnetic field of 0.55 T and to reach a central temperature between 1 to 3 keV. In 2012, NSTX ended operations to undergo a mayor upgrade. Once this upgrade was finished, the device became NSTX-U.
Affiliated Organizations
In Operation
1999 - 2012