KTH Royal Institute of Technology

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Also known as KTH ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

KTH Royal Institute of Technology is a public technical university in Stockholm, Sweden, founded in 1827. The IAEA's 2022 survey lists it as operator of EXTRAP T2R, a reversed-field pinch operating since 1994. A reversed-field pinch is a ring-shaped magnetic confinement device in which the magnetic field reverses direction near the plasma edge; EXTRAP T2R is used to study resistive wall modes, a type of instability.

Sector: Fusion
Role: University, Operator

It is the operator of record for R1 (decommissioned) and EXTRAP T2R (operating).

Devices

R1Water-cooledDecommissionedNo figures yet EXTRAP T2RReversed-field pinchOperatingNo figures yet

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Sources

World Survey of Fusion Devices 2022independent
KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Wikipedia)aggregator