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CONFIGURATION TYPE TOKAMAK [1 record]

Record 1 1985-08-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Energy Transformation
  • Thermonuclear fusion
  • Atomic Physics
DEF

A toroidal longitudinal pinch stabilized by an intense toroidal magnetic field, superimposed from outside, whose rotational transform is not generated externally as in the stellarator configuration, but by the pinch currents flowing in the plasma itself.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transformation de l'énergie
  • Fusion thermonucléaire
  • Physique atomique

Spanish

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