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• n  a doughnut-shaped chamber used in fusion research; a plasma is heated and confined in a magnetic bottle

• Their doughnut-shaped tokamak machines, in which hydrogen plasma is contained and compressed by powerful magnetic fields and heated to sunlike temperatures, offer perhaps the .

News & Articles

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• Nuclear Fusion Research Enters 'Critical Phase' In France | WUNC
  Loading streams... The foundations for Iter's tokamak -- which will contain the hot plasma -- have been laid. (BBC)
  Aug. 24, 2013 - WUNC Chapel Hill

Quotes

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• Nick Herbert in Telegraph.co.uk
  The Spherical Torus is closely related to the [ITER] tokamak design, and experiments planned for the next several years in the NSTX facility promise many exciting discoveries that should directly impact our ability to understand the new plasma... Raymond L. Orbach http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_L._Orbach&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEmSSKdSFpb2jYQ7AUMaTt-5gDfwA PhysicsToday.org http://www.google.com/url?q=http://blogs.physicstoday.org/newspicks/2008/05/us_national_compact_stellarato.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHM_Lm29RRDutoNQlFXQg4r7SYNTg May 23, 2008 100594 133617 token Shadow justice secretary Nick Herbert said: First a national motto, then an oath of allegiance, now a patriotic day - one token initiative after another in Gordon Brown's Britishness agenda has sunk without trace. Labour still hasn't worked out...