The Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) was an experimental tokamak built at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) circa 1980 and entering service...
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would run on a fusion fuel of deuterium and tritium. These machines, notably the Joint European Torus (JET) and Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR), had the...
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China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor (Chinese: 中国聚变工程实验堆; pinyin: Zhōngguó Jùbiàn Gōngchéng Shíyànduī), or CFETR, is a proposed tokamak fusion reactor, which...
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The project is given the name Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR). The Kurchatov Institute builds the TO-2, the first tokamak with a divertor, using a toroidal...
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Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), also known as HT-7U (Hefei Tokamak 7 Upgrade), is an experimental superconducting tokamak magnetic fusion energy reactor in Hefei...
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are known as fusion reactors. Research into fusion reactors began in the 1940s, but as of 2025, no device has reached net power. Fusion processes require...
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42.5437°N 71.6271°W / 42.5437; -71.6271 SPARC is a tokamak under development by Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) in collaboration with the Massachusetts...
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ITER (redirect from International Tokamak Experiment)
largest of more than 100 fusion reactors built since the 1950s, with six times the plasma volume of JT-60SA in Japan, the largest tokamak operating today. The...
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"Progress in Fusion Research – 30 Years of TEXTOR" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 October 2016. "Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor". 2011-04-26...
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to establish the scientific basis for the optimization of the tokamak approach to fusion energy production. DIII-D was built on the basis of the earlier...
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two major branches of controlled fusion research, along with inertial confinement fusion. Fusion reactions for reactors usually combine light atomic nuclei...
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A spherical tokamak is a type of fusion power device based on the tokamak principle. It is notable for its very narrow profile, or aspect ratio. A traditional...
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TRANSP (category Tokamaks)
It was first used to model plasmas from experiments in the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) at PPPL. As of 2025, the program has been continuously...
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23056 Mega Ampere Spherical Tokamak (MAST) was a nuclear fusion experiment, testing a spherical tokamak nuclear fusion reactor, and commissioned by EURATOM/UKAEA...
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Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (section Tokamak)
"breakeven" while running on an actual fusion fuel, rather than a test gas. This produced the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor, or TFTR, which was completed in 1982...
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Inertial Fusion, claimed that "no showstoppers" lay on the road to fusion energy. The DOE selected a Princeton design Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR)...
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DEMOnstration Power Plant (redirect from DEMO (fusion reactor))
appears in official documentation. China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor COLEX process ITER PROTO Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production "Charting the International...
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The Lockheed Martin Compact Fusion Reactor (CFR) was a fusion power project at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works. Its high-beta configuration, which implies...
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temperature was tested on ZETA, and was later used to confirm the results of the Soviet tokamak approach. In another, while examining ZETA test runs it was...
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S. Department of Energy with various tests as well as nuclear decommissioning. Bluegrass has performed reactor vessel cutting and steam generator replacements...
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Technology (MIT). Its stated goal is to build a small fusion power plant based on the ARC tokamak design. It has participated in the United States Department...
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DEMO-class successor device to the ITER tokamak proof-of-concept of a fusion plant, the most advanced tokamak fusion reactor to date, which is scheduled to achieve...
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National Spherical Torus Experiment (category Tokamaks)
Magnetic fusion experiments use plasmas composed of one or more hydrogen isotopes. For example, in 1994, PPPL's Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) produced...
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Joint European Torus (redirect from Jet fusion)
experiment, located at Culham Centre for Fusion Energy in Oxfordshire, UK. Based on a tokamak design, the fusion research facility was a joint European...
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A fusion energy gain factor, usually expressed with the symbol Q, is the ratio of fusion power produced in a nuclear fusion reactor to the power required...
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Princeton Large Torus (category Tokamaks)
reaching breakeven, a long-sought goal in fusion power. This system emerged as the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor, or TFTR. Originally slated to be built at...
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ITER Lockheed Martin Compact Fusion Reactor Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production TAE Technologies TerraPower Tokamak Energy Dean, Josh (23 December...
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designs of fusion reactor are DEMO, Wendelstein 7-X, NIF, HiPER, JET (precursor to ITER), and MAST. energy portal ADITYA (tokamak) Megaproject Fusion for Energy...
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reactor. A fusion rocket may produce less radiation than a fission rocket, reducing the shielding mass needed. The simplest way of building a fusion rocket...
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during record setting magnetic fusion energy experiments on the largest tokamak in the country, the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR). In 1983, Furth was...
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