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(ICP/03) Spherical Tokamak without External Toroidal Fields

(This paper was rapporteured in lecture EX4/1)

P. K. Kaw, K. Avinash, R. Srinivasan

Institute for Plasma Research, Bhat, Gandhinagar-382 428, India

Abstract.  A spherical tokamak design without external toroidal field coils is proposed. The tokamak is surrounded by a spheromak shell carrying requisite force free currents to produce the toroidal field in the core. Such equilibria are constructed and it is indicated that these equilibria are likely to have robust ideal and resistive stability. The advantage of this scheme in terms of a reduced ohmic dissipation is pointed out.

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