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The Sustained Spheromak Physics Experiment (SSPX) is a program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the United States established to investigate spheromak plasma.

A spheromak device produces a plasma in magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium mainly through self-induced plasma currents, as opposed to a tokamak device which depends on large externally generated magnetic fields. The series of experiments examines the potential for a spheromak device to contain fusion fuel. According to a 1999 abstract,

The Sustained Spheromak Physics Experiment, SSPX , will study spheromak physics with particular attention to energy confinement and magnetic fluctuations in a spheromak sustained by electrostatic helicity injection.

See also

• Magnetohydrodynamics
• Magnetic helicity
• Magnetic reconnection
• Turbulence

References

1. Sustained Spheromak Physics Experiment - SSPX Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine MFEScience. 2008-03-27.
2. Experiment mimics nature's way with plasmas LLNL. 2008-03-27.
3. (ICP/04) Sustained Spheromak Physics Experiment Archived 2008-11-21 at the Wayback Machine IAEA. 2008-03-27.

External links

• Science@Livermore - Press release
• Fusion Energy Program publications
• The Sustained Spheromak Physics Experiment: A Short Overview at the Wayback Machine (archived September 17, 2006)
• Romero-Talamas, Investigations of Spheromak plasma dynamics, Ph.D. thesis
• Selected abstracts:
  • Romero-Talamas, Spheromak formation and sustainment studies
  • Wang, Large-amplitude electron density
  • Hooper, Sustained Spheromak Physics Experiment

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