Ice Injection into a Plasma (IMAGE)

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Ice Injection into a Plasma

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Figure 1: Visible light image of SPI into a tokamak plasma. Ice shards can be seen entering the plasma (invisible, edge indicated by white line) heading toward plasma core (indicated by white cross). Bright light at top is gas (used to propel the pellet), which does not penetrate the plasma edge. Blue line indicates the outer wall of the DIII-D tokamak.

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Courtesy R.A. Moyer UC-San Diego.

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