Princeton Tokamak Reaches Record Plasma Ion Temperature
NOV 01, 1986
DOI: 10.1063/1.2815199
The large Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory has entered a new regime of “enhanced confinement” operation. The first spectacular consequence of this new regime is the attainment of a record ion temperature of 20 keV—more than 200 million kelvin. For the first time, a tokamak is creating plasmas with ion temperatures hot enough for ignition and fusion‐reactor operation.
© 1986. American Institute of Physics
