Assembly of LTX Underway
PPL�s Current Drive Experiment-Upgrade (CDX-U) machine completed its last phase of experiments in July 2005. It is now being converted to a new device, the Lithium Tokamak Experiment (LTX), which will begin operation in early 2007. The LTX will continue promising, innovative work started on CDX-U in 2000, involving the use of pure lithium metal on surfaces facing or contacting the plasma. PPPL researchers believe that LTX may herald a new regime of plasma performance with improved stability, lower impurity levels, better particle and temperature control, and more efficient operation.
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