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What is a tokamak?

What is a tokamak? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A toroidal chamber in which a plasma is magnetically confined; used in nuclear fusion research.
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This does not mean that basic research and research in general should not be pursued in areas other than implementing ITER, as you rightly stressed, for example on JET and other types of tokamak, such as the stellarator.
Hence the interest in another reactor design, the stellarator, a rival to the tokamak which fell behind in the 1960s but which is now making a comeback. Twist and shoutA stellarator is a tokamak with twists in it.
This is a giant undertaking, and yet another reason to doubt the tokamak approach's commercial viability.
The president of the Canadian Association of Physicists, Mr. Vincett, has said that the tokamak project had a very high ratio of results to dollars invested and enjoyed an excellent reputation internationally.
The 40° sectors are sub-assembled at assembly hall respectively and then nine 40° sectors sub-assembled at assembly hall are finally assembled at tokamak in-pit hall.
That technique uses a magnetic field to hold large volumes of the same isotopes of hydrogen inside a doughnut-shaped vessel, called a tokamak.

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