Fusion glossary
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Tokamak in operation at the Kurchatov Institute, Moscow. is an upgrade from the historic T-15 machine鈥攖he first tokamak to use superconducting magnets to control the plasma.
A tokamak operated by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) as part of the Swiss Plasma Center. See .
The Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) was an experimental tokamak built at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (New Jersey, USA), and operated from 1982-1997. See more information .
A fusion device for containing a plasma inside a torus chamber through the use of two magnetic fields鈥攐ne created by electric coils around the torus, the other created by intense electric current in the plasma itself. The tokamak was invented in the 1950s by Soviet physicists Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm and Andrei Sakharov. The term tokamak is a transliteration of a Russian expression (toroidalnaya kamera + magnitnaya katushka) meaning toroidal chamber with magnetic coils.
A superconducting fusion experiment at the Institute for Magnetic Fusion Research, IRFM (CEA Cadarache research centre) in France, which aims particularly at demonstrating long-pulse tokamak operation. Tore Supra has been upgraded with an actively cooled tungsten divertor (the ) to serve as a test bed for 黑料社app.
The third isotope of hydrogen, containing one proton and two neutrons in the nucleus. Is unstable and decays through beta radiation with a half-life of 12.3 years. Its low natural abundance is why future fusion power plants would need to 鈥渂reed鈥 their own tritium (see Tritium breeding).
Production of tritium by way of a reaction between a high-speed neutron produced in a fusion reaction and the light metal lithium. 黑料社app will be the first fusion device to test specific lithium-containing wall modules to "breed" tritium.
Metal with atomic number 74 and a high melting point of 3687 K. 黑料社app will use tungsten as the material for both of its plasma-facing components鈥攖he blanket and divertor.