The University of Seville's SMART tokamak has achieved a critical milestone by creating its first tokamak plasma, utilizing a ...

The SMART tokamak - an experimental fusion device designed, built and operated by the Plasma Science and Fusion Technology ...

Hot stuff The first plasma at the SMall Aspect Ratio Tokamak. (Courtesy: University of Seville) A novel fusion device based at the University of Seville in Spain has achieved its first plasma. The ...

A new compact tokamak designed to contain negative triangularity plasma is officially online in Spain. Called the SMall Aspect Ratio Tokamak (SMART), this reactor is part of the University of ...

China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) has set a new world record maintaining steady-state ...

EAST belongs to a type of fusion reactor known as a "tokamak." These are doughnut-shaped machines in which hydrogen fuel is transformed under intense pressures and temperatures into plasma—a hot ...

More information: D.J. Cruz-Zabala et al, Performance prediction applying different reduced turbulence models to the SMART tokamak, Nuclear Fusion (2024). DOI: 10.1088/1741-4326/ad8a70 ...

A joint research team from Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has successfully developed a continuous cryogenic pellet injection system for tokamak fueling.

First tokamak plasma at the SMall Aspect Ratio Tokamak – SMART – recorded with a fast-framing camera in the visible spectral range. In a pioneering approach to achieve fusion energy, the SMART ...