MHD Activity in an Extremely High-Beta Compact Toroid

23rd IAEA Fusion Energy Conference: summary of sessions EX/C and ICC

“…At this conference, the heading of innovative confinement concepts included a broad range of configurations and topics with some related papers in the confinement session: levitated dipoles [1,2], field reversed configurations [3,4], mirror machines [5][6][7][8], spheromaks [9], helicaltokamak hybrid [10], magneto-inertial fusion [11], current amplification by helicity injection [12,13] and direct energy conversion [14] as well as construction or upgrades of research facilities [15][16][17]. A couple of examples will be highlighted to illustrate the breadth of research reported at the conference.…”