This paper reviews the research on the reversed field pinch (RFP) in the last three decades.
Substantial experimental and theoretical progress and transformational changes have been …

accepted October 17, 2007; published November 26, 2007) A reversed field pinch (RFP)
machine with aspect ratio of as low as 2 (R= a ¼ 0: 51 m/0.25 m) has been constructed for …

Energy confinement comparable with tokamak quality is achieved in the Madison Symmetric
Torus (MST) reversed field pinch (RFP) at a high beta and low toroidal magnetic field …

The worldwide effort to develop the fusion process as a new energy source has been going
on for about a half century and has made remarkable progress. Now construction stage of …

Resulting from ongoing, international research into fusion processes, the International
Tokamak Experimental Reactor (ITER) is a major step in the quest for a new energy source …

Generation and sustainment of the reversed field pinch (RFP) magnetic configuration
normally relies on dynamo activity. The externally applied electric field tends to drive the …

For several reasons, improved-confinement achieved in the reversed field pinch (RFP)
during the last few years can be characterized as' tokamak-like'. Historically, RFP plasmas …

Recent coaxial helicity injection (CHI) studies using the Helicity Injected Torus device [Redd
et al, Phys. Plasmas 9, 2006 (2002)] have produced discharges with measured toroidal …

Enhanced confinement regimes with quasihelical symmetry are reproducibly obtained in the
modified reversed field pinch eXperiment (RFX)-mod by reducing the level of internal chaos …

By manipulating magnetic reconnection in Madison Symmetric Torus (MST) discharges, we
have generated and confined for the first time a reversed-field pinch (RFP) plasma with an …