The Sustained Spheromak Physics Experiment (SSPX) is a program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the United States established to investigate spheromak plasma.Sustained Spheromak Physics Experiment - SSPX MFEScience. 2008-03-27.
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.Experiment mimics nature's way with plasmas LLNL. 2008-03-27. 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.(ICP/04) Sustained Spheromak Physics Experiment IAEA. 2008-03-27.
See also Magnetohydrodynamics Magnetic helicity Magnetic reconnection Turbulence
References
External links Science@Livermore - Press release Fusion Energy Program publications
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