From: Chuck Murcko (chuck@topsail.org)
Date: Sat Jan 27 2001 - 23:54:02 PST
Yes, large amounts of energy confined in small volumes have interesting results when they go too nonlinear. 8^) The standard design for handling magnet faults once the confinement magnets get superconducting is to dump the stored energy into a brine pond of some acres in size. 8^)
Chuck
On Friday, January 26, 2001, at 05:41 PM, Tony Finch wrote:
> Chuck Murcko <chuck@topsail.org> wrote: 
> > 
> >I used to work on magnetic confinement fusion - RF heating 
>  
> Cool. When I was reading about the JET a few years ago I was seriously 
> impressed, especially by stories of the whole several-hundred-tonne 
> assembly bouncing when plasma containment failed... 
>  
> Tony. 
> --  
> f.a.n.finch    fanf@covalent.net    dot@dotat.at 
> "And remember my friend, future events such 
> as these will affect you in the future." 
>  
>  
Chuck Murcko
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