Skip to main content

Progress Toward a Tokamak Fusion Reactor

Recent efforts to confine a superhot hydrogen plasma in a toroidal magnetic bottle have yielded encouraging results. The feasibility of this scheme for a fusion reactor should be known in a few years

00
Scientific American Magazine Vol 241 Issue 2This article was originally published with the title “Progress Toward a Tokamak Fusion Reactor” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 241 No. 2 (), p. 50
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0879-50