The Reversed-Field eXperiment (RFX) is the largest
reversed field pinch
A reversed-field pinch (RFP) is a device used to produce and contain near-thermonuclear Plasma (physics), plasmas. It is a Pinch (magnetic fusion), toroidal pinch which uses a unique magnetic field configuration as a scheme to magnetically con ...
device presently in operation, situated in
Padua,
Italy. It was constructed from 1985 to 1991, and has been in operation since 1992.
The experiments carried out in the last two decades with two large RFP machines (MST in Madison, Wisconsin and RFX in Padova) provided new insight on the physical phenomena taking place in magnetically confined plasma dynamics.
[P. Martin et al. 2013 Nucl. Fusion 53 104018. doi:10.1088/0029-5515/53/10/104018 (September 2013, IAEA, Vienna)]
See also
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List of plasma (physics) articles
This is a list of plasma physics topics.
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* Ablation
* Abradable coating
* Abraham–Lorentz force
* Absorption band
* Accretion disk
* Active galactic nucleus
* Adiabatic invariant
* ADITYA (tokamak)
* Aeronomy
* Afterglow plasma
* Airg ...
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Madison Symmetric Torus
The Madison Symmetric Torus (MST) is a reversed field pinch (RFP) physics experiment with applications to both fusion energy research and astrophysical plasmas.
MST is located at the Center for Magnetic Self Organization (CMSO) at the Universit ...
References
External links
Consorzio RFX website
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Magnetic confinement fusion devices
Science and technology in Italy