The magnetic mirror device was brought from MIT . The first plasma experiment in Houston was conducted with a microwave plasma source.
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Limited to break-even energy balance, the magnetic mirror endcaps consumed power, but much less than that produced in a solenoid of sufficient length.
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Sharply bent fields were used by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in a series of magnetic mirror machines from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s.
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This image shows how a charged particle will corkscrew along the magnetic fields inside a magnetic bottle, which is two magnetic mirrors placed close together.
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This would be easier with some confinement schemes ( e . g . magnetic mirrors ) than with others ( e . g . tokamaks ).
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The key is that these two line cusps are much narrower than the single line cusp in magnetic mirror machines, so the net losses are less.
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The adiabatic condition is violated in "'transit-time magnetic pumping "', where the length of a magnetic mirror is oscillated at the bounce frequency, resulting in net heating.
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CFR plans to achieve high beta ( the ratio of plasma pressure to the magnetic pressure ) by combining cusp confinement and magnetic mirrors to confine the plasma.
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As a result of advocacy, the cold war, and the 1970s energy crisis a massive magnetic mirror program was funded by the U . S . federal government.
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Magnetic mirror research continued in Russia, one modern example is the Gas Dynamic Trap, an experimental fusion machine used at the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics in Akademgorodok, Russia.
