Tokamak magnetic confinement fusion
Tokamak, confinamiento magnético para fusión
- Date
- 1958-1968 · confidence high
- Place
- Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, USSR
- Credited to
- Igor Tamm, Andrei Sakharov (concept, 1950-1951), Lev Artsimovich (T-3, 1968)
- People
- 👤 Andréi Sájarov1921–1989👤 Ígor Tam1895–1971👤 Lev Artsimóvich1909–1973
- Field
- Matter & energy
What it is
A toroidal chamber with magnetic fields that confine a plasma at millions of degrees. The T-3's results in 1968 convinced the world, and it has been the dominant fusion reactor design ever since.
What it led to
- JET, ITER and international fusion research
- The promise of nearly unlimited energy without carbon emissions or long-lived waste
- Fusion start-ups using high-temperature superconducting magnets
Built on
- Superconductivity1911
- Hydrogen bomb (Ivy Mike)1952
- plasma physics
- superconductors