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A new, more complex nuclear age has begun. Echoing the tensions of the Cold War amid rapidly evolving nuclear and radiological threats, preparedness in the modern age is a contest of scientific innovation. The Research and Development Directorate (RD) at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) is charged with winning this contest.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 17 | Number 4 | July 1990 | Pages 658-660
Technical Note | Plasma Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST90-A29198
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The possibility of applying compact toroids (CTs) to drive current via helicity injection in an engineering test reactor tokamak is considered. Some preliminary calculations for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor are presented and it is shown that plasma gain Q values (i.e., fusion power/injected CT power) in an unoptimized system may be of the order of 10 to 40, depending on the CT/tokamak interaction processes.