This paper reviews the research on the reversed field pinch (RFP) in the last three decades.
Substantial experimental and theoretical progress and transformational changes have been …

The central solenoid is an intrinsic part of all present-day tokamaks and most spherical
tokamaks. The spherical torus (ST) confinement concept is projected to operate at high …

The basic idea of centrifugal confinement is to use centrifugal forces from supersonic
rotation to augment conventional magnetic confinement. Optimizing this “knob” results in a …

A centre-solenoid-free merging start-up scheme for spherical tokamak plasmas was
developed in a University of Tokyo spherical tokamak (UTST) experiment by using outer …

An internal kink instability is observed to grow and saturate in a line-tied screw pinch
plasma. Detailed measurements show that an ideal, line-tied kink mode begins growing …

High-powered electric propulsion thrusters utilizing a magnetized plasma require that
plasma exhaust detach from the applied magnetic field in order to produce thrust. This paper …

A new magnetic mirror machine named KAIMIR (KAIST mirror) has been designed and
constructed at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) to study …

The reconnection scaling experiment RSX, a linear device for studying three-dimensional
magnetic reconnection in both collisional and collisionless laboratory plasmas, has been …

Startup of a 0.1 MA tokamak plasma is demonstrated on the ultralow aspect ratio Pegasus
Toroidal Experiment using three localized, high-current density sources mounted near the …

A linear experiment dedicated to the study of driven magnetic reconnection is presented.
The new device (VINETA II) is suitable for investigating both collisional and near …