One set of designs involves the use of a tokamak — a donut-shaped vessel where the nuclei are confined, like in a cage, and made to fuse. Inside the vessel, a deuterium gas is exposed to about ...

France’s Commissariat à L'énergie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives on Tuesday claimed it’s topped China’s recently-established for record maintaining fusion plasma in a tokamak, and therefore ...

They were welcomed by the director-general of the facility, and both leaders commended the advancements made at ITER, particularly the assembly of the world’s largest tokamak. 1. ITER is an ...

The plasma inside the vacuum vessel is monitored in real-time by a vast array of magnetic sensors, thermocouples and accelerometers. Data, vital for machine operation, is transmitted by cables of the ...