tokamak
noun
to·ka·mak
ˈtō-kə-ˌmak 
ˈtä-
ˈtä-
variants
or less commonly tokomak
: a toroidal device for producing controlled nuclear fusion that involves the confining and heating of a gaseous plasma by means of an electric current and magnetic field
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Within the tokamak, the magnets confine plasmas — a state of matter with large quantities of ionized particles — at 10 times the temperature of the sun.
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Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 May 2024
Earlier this year, the Korea Institute of Fusion Energy installed a tungsten diverter in its KSTAR tokamak, replacing the device’s carbon diverter.
—Isaac Schultz / Gizmodo, Quartz, 6 May 2024
The tokamak is lined with strong magnets that hold the plasma in.
—Angela Dewan, CNN, 8 Feb. 2024
What the scientists are doing in South Korea will feed into the development of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor in southern France, known as ITER, the world’s biggest tokamak which aims to prove the feasibility of fusion.
—Laura Paddison, CNN, 1 Apr. 2024
Different Designs Setups for magnetic-confinement fusion are not necessarily limited to tokamaks.
—Philip Ball, Scientific American, 16 May 2023
In a tokamak or a stellarator, the hot plasma is limited to a density of 10 14 deuterons per cubic centimeter.
—Bayarbadrakh Baramsai, IEEE Spectrum, 27 Feb. 2022
An animation showing how tokamaks generate nuclear fusion energy.
—Angela Dewan, CNN, 8 Feb. 2024
In the 1950s, scientists created various magnetic-confinement fusion devices, the most well known of which were Andrei Sakharov’s tokamak and Lyman Spitzer’s stellarator.
—Bayarbadrakh Baramsai, IEEE Spectrum, 27 Feb. 2022
Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 May 2024
Earlier this year, the Korea Institute of Fusion Energy installed a tungsten diverter in its KSTAR tokamak, replacing the device’s carbon diverter.
—Isaac Schultz / Gizmodo, Quartz, 6 May 2024
The tokamak is lined with strong magnets that hold the plasma in.
—Angela Dewan, CNN, 8 Feb. 2024
What the scientists are doing in South Korea will feed into the development of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor in southern France, known as ITER, the world’s biggest tokamak which aims to prove the feasibility of fusion.
—Laura Paddison, CNN, 1 Apr. 2024
Different Designs Setups for magnetic-confinement fusion are not necessarily limited to tokamaks.
—Philip Ball, Scientific American, 16 May 2023
In a tokamak or a stellarator, the hot plasma is limited to a density of 10 14 deuterons per cubic centimeter.
—Bayarbadrakh Baramsai, IEEE Spectrum, 27 Feb. 2022
An animation showing how tokamaks generate nuclear fusion energy.
—Angela Dewan, CNN, 8 Feb. 2024
In the 1950s, scientists created various magnetic-confinement fusion devices, the most well known of which were Andrei Sakharov’s tokamak and Lyman Spitzer’s stellarator.
—Bayarbadrakh Baramsai, IEEE Spectrum, 27 Feb. 2022
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