tokamak
IPA: toʊkˈɑmʌk
noun
- (nuclear physics) A torus-shaped chamber used in nuclear fusion research in which a plasma is magnetically confined.
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Examples of "tokamak" in Sentences
- The modeling of the tokamak plasmas.
- An alternative to the tokamak is the stellarator.
- The word tokamak means "toroidal chamber" in Russian.
- See tokamak for one possible design of such a reactor.
- The project theory is based on ignited plasma in tokamak.
- That is the case for tokamak, but not, for example for the DPF.
- This phenomenon was first observed in the ASDEX tokamak in 1981.
- He is named after the tokamak, part of a nuclear fusion reactor.
- The higher the Q, the more efficiently will the tokamak produce power.
- A tokamak, which is what ITER will be, is basically a D-shaped car tire.
- The CFNS is based on a tokamak, which is a machine with a "magnetic bottle" that is highly successful in confining high temperature more than 100 million°C fusion plasmas for sufficiently long times.
- A tokamak is a doughnut-shaped vessel in which researchers use powerful magnet fields to squeeze and heat a plasma of hydrogen isotopes until the nuclei fuse together forming helium and releasing large amounts of heat.
- Nuclear fusion entails forcing together the nuclei of light atomic elements in a super-heated plasma, held in a doughnut-shaped chamber called a tokamak, so that they make heavier elements and in so doing release energy.
- Methods and apparatus for plasma generation, confinement and control such as Tokamak plasma systems are described having a two layer field shaping coil system comprising an inner coil layer close to the plasma and an outer coil layer to minimize the current in the inner coil layer.
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