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A doughnut-shaped chamber used in fusion research
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tokamak
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A '''tokamak ''' is a device that uses a powerful magnetic field to confine plasma in the shape of a torus . Achieving a stable plasma equilibrium requires magnetic field lines that move around the torus in a helical shape. Such a helical field can be generated ...
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n. A toroidal chamber in which a plasma is magnetically confined; used in nuclear fusion research.
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n. a doughnut-shaped chamber used in fusion research; a plasma is heated and confined in a magnetic bottle
Usage examples of tokamak.
It housed two small tokamak fusion reactors and their associated support machinery, a tightly packed three-dimensional maze of tanks, cryostats, superconductor magnets, plasma inductors, pumps, electron injectors and high-voltage cabling.
He looked beyond Kayan to the crater with the flattened tokamak at the bottom of it, then to Kitarak, still glowing with faint blue light.
And, Stephen, the surveys of the precise centre of the explosion place it very near to the basement where the Tokamak was operating.
Surely, no matter how improbably, it had to have been something going wrong with the Tokamak fusion reactor.
Samphan had now come down on the side of Bill Macarthur and was supporting the consensus view that the Tokamak could have been sabotaged.
The right kind of fissionable material, introduced within the Tokamak chamber while it was operating, could have undergone a chain-reaction by bombardment with neutrons.
The feeling worsened by the moment, becoming a black dread, and by the time the Tokamak pulled to stop, his newborn heart was racing, and his quick damp breath tasted foul.
Three more cars pulled up behind him, including a Tokamak, and he happened to glance at the rearview screen when Blaine climbed out, walking with a genuine bounce, approaching on the right and rapping on the passenger window with one fat knuckle, then stooping down and smiling through the glass, proving that he had made a remarkable recovery since being murdered.
It had been opened, and the tokamak coils had been removed by some of the mandible-like manipulator waldos.
Fed by the energies of a tokamak larger than any other used so far in space and a lot of smaller communities on earth, it would hopefully create a fold in space and send us to another spot in our universe at a speed faster than light.
The tokamaks fed their power into a high-thrust ion drive, eight grid nozzles buried in a simple box structure that was fixed to the base of the ship almost as an afterthought.
Big spherical deuterium tanks were plugged into the stress structure at the head of the cones, along with ancillary support equipment and ten small tokamaks that provided power for the main engine ignition sequence.
The plasma temperature in the tokamaks began to cool as the magnetic pinch was reduced.
Vast and powerful magnetic flux lines were expanding out from the compression drive section as the tokamaks powered up.
It would carefully recommend severe security restrictions on the access to any future Tokamaks, the construction of which would also be strongly recommended.