#tcv

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Part 1 - Coming Soon

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It’s finally here! TCV Chapter 1 part 1!

I was hoping for an earlier release, buuuuut, life happened, including a WHOLE day of cleaning the house.

[literallymechanical]

(EPFL Swiss Plasma Center)

Tokamak à Configuration Variable, or TCV, is a Swiss research fusion reactor with an extremely elongated (tall and narrow) plasma vessel and a ton of independently controlled poloidal magnetic coils (orange, in the figure above). As the name implies, this means that it can shape fusion plasma into a wide variety of intricate configurations. TCV's ability to "sculpt" plasma has been instrumental in a ton of discoveries in nuclear fusion.

Negative triangularity (where the usual "D" shaped plasma points backwards, with the flat side facing out and the curve pointing to the center of the machine) is particularly interesting, as it allows for high confinement without a fluctuating plasma edge. Also a ton of advanced divertor geometries, like the snowflake divertor. Here are a few examples:

anyway,

Tag urself

Limited

Single null upper

Single null lower

Double null

Highest squareness

Highest current

Highest fully driven current

Pear shape

Doublet shape

Highest elongation

Lowest triangularity

Snowflake

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I can't find the original post that I made so I'm reposting all of these

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them crooked vultures @ aragon ballroom chicago 2010

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JOSHENTINES!

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josh leaning on ppl's shoulders

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY GOATTT

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Them Crooked Vultures, Montreal, 2010