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 ...

A new compact tokamak designed to contain negative triangularity plasma is officially online in Spain. Called the SMall Aspect Ratio Tokamak (SMART), this reactor is part of the University of ...

The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) reactor in Hefei, Anhui Province has set a new record with a 1,066-second sustained fusion reaction. For 80 years, there has been a ...

The WEST tokamak machine in southern France managed to maintain plasma for 1,337 seconds on February 12, France's Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) said in a statement. This "smashed" the previous ...

State media published celebratory photos of the doughnut-shaped “Tokamak” machine where the experiment took place, with a prominent Chinese flag poking out of the top. Last week Chinese ...

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First tokamak plasma at the SMall Aspect Ratio Tokamak – SMART – recorded with a fast-framing camera in the visible spectral range. Credit: Universidad de Sevilla The University of Seville’s SMART ...

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 ...

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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 ...