MIT tokamak Alcator C exceeds Lawson criterion
FEB 01, 1984
DOI: 10.1063/1.2916078
In 1957 John Lawson at Harwell pointed out a crucial minimum requirement for the achievement of net power output from a deuterium–tritium plasma in any fusion device. No matter what the temperature, Lawson showed, a thermalized D–T plasma cannot put out more fusion power than the input power required to keep it hot unless
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