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Supermagnet 100,000x stronger than Earth’s magnetic field to bring nuclear power closer
CFS is working with the tokamak design for its fusion reactor and previously tested the Toroidal Field Model Coil (TFMC) in 2021. Both the TFMC and CSMS use high-temperature superconducting (HTS ...
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SMART spherical tokamak produces its first plasma
With a vessel dimension of 1.6 × 1.6 m, SMART has a 30 cm diameter solenoid wrapped around 12 toroidal field coils while eight poloidal field coils are used to shape the plasma. Triangularity refers ...
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Testing Futuristic Propeller Designs With A 3D Printer And A Solar-Powered Boat
Most famous of these is probably the toroidal propeller that made waves a while ago, mostly in the field of flying drones, but commercial toroidal boat props exist too. Test results of the ...
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Spain’s spherical nuclear reactor achieves first plasma with ‘negative triangularity’
It features a one-foot-long solenoid magnet with 12 toroidal field coils and eight poloidal field coils that help shape the plasma. Triangularity in a tokamak is the shape of the plasma in ...
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GaToroid: Getting closer to affordable cancer hadron therapy
It exploits compact superconducting coils, located at different angles around the patient, to create a steady-state toroidal magnetic field that can direct particle beams onto a tumor from any ...