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’Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house
No electrons were flowing through even my mouse.
All devices were plugged by the chimney with care
With the hope that St. Nikola Tesla would share.
M.D. Werst, G.W. Brunson, K. T. Hsieh, R.L. Sledge, D.J. Wehrlen, W.F. Weldon, H.H. Woodson
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 1217-1222
Ignition Device | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29509
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The Center for Electromechanics at The University of Texas at Austin (CEM-UT) has designed, built, and is now testing a full torus, single-turn magnet designed to produce 20 Tesla (T) on-axis. The Ignition Technology Demonstration (ITD) as it is called is a 0.06 scale Texas Ignition Experiment (IGNITEX) toroidal field (TF) magnet prototype. The purpose of the ITD program is to demonstrate the operation of a 20 T, single-turn TF coil powered by homopolar generators (HPGs). To date the prototype TF magnet has produced a purely toroidal, on-axis field of 15.0 T without an axial preload.