The Globus-M2 spherical tokamak that Bakharev his team are working on may be an important first step towards this goal. Tokamaks confine plasma – a hot, ionized gas – using magnetic fields ...

Hot stuff The first plasma at the SMall Aspect Ratio Tokamak. (Courtesy: University of Seville) A novel fusion device based at the University of Seville in Spain has achieved its first plasma. The ...

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 ...

Record breaker: The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak based in Hefei, China, has sustained a high-pressure plasma for over 1000 seconds (Courtesy: Hefei Institute of Physical Science) A ...

High-power thyristors are crucial in Tokamak fusion reactors because they ... a mathematical model to correlate various key ...

First designed in the 1970s as Japan’s Breakeven Plasma Test Facility, the JT-60SA tokamak-based fusion reactor ... along with a range of other parameters. Along with UK’s JET, China’s ...

A joint research team from Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has successfully developed a continuous cryogenic pellet injection system for tokamak fueling.

More information: J. Dominguez-Palacios et al, Effect of energetic ions on edge-localized modes in tokamak plasmas, Nature Physics (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41567-024-02715-6 Journal information ...