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Southwestern Institute of Physics

also known as SOUTHWESTERN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS

Sector
Fusion

163 in this dataset

Headquarters
🇨🇳CN

11 organisations in CN

Status
Active
Role
Research institute, Operator

What these terms mean

Every classification on this page, defined. These are controlled-vocabulary terms, so the same word means the same thing on every profile.

Research institute
A public or non-profit research body. Frequently operates devices it did not commercially develop.
Operator
Runs a facility, which may have been built by someone else.
Fusion
Organizations pursuing energy from nuclear fusion, and their dedicated supply chain.

Where Southwestern Institute of Physics sits

Composed from records in this dataset, not from outside research. Every figure below is counted from what the site holds, so it moves when the data does.

It is one of 11 we hold in CN.

It operates 2 devices in this dataset, none of which carries recorded performance figures.

Related organisations

Others pursuing the same approach, then others in the same country.

Measured results

Results recorded on this operator’s devices. Design parameters — bore, field, dimensions — are excluded: a machine’s size is not something it achieved. 6 design parameters are held on the device pages.

Measured results for Southwestern Institute of Physics
DeviceMetric ValueStatusSource
HL-2A Plasma current 0.48 MA claimed World Survey of Fusion Devices 2022
HL-2A Plasma duration 5 s claimed World Survey of Fusion Devices 2022
HL-2M Plasma current 3 MA claimed World Survey of Fusion Devices 2022
HL-2M Plasma duration 10 s claimed World Survey of Fusion Devices 2022

Devices operated 2

Sources

A source marked operator is the subject’s own publication. That is legitimate, and it is not independent confirmation. Methodology.