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Tsinghua University

馃嚚馃嚦 Beijing, CN 路 Active

Also known as TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY

Tsinghua University is a public research university in Haidian, Beijing, founded in 1911 and funded by China's Ministry of Education. The IAEA World Survey of Fusion Devices lists it as the operator of SUNIST-1, a small spherical tokamak. The fusion company Startorus Fusion says its core team comes from the Tsinghua group that ran SUNIST for more than twenty years, and describes the device as China's first spherical tokamak.

Sector
Fusion, Fission
Role
University, Operator

It is the operator of record for HTR-10 (operating) and SUNIST-1 (operating).

Design values

Design values for devices operated by Tsinghua University. These are what a machine was built to do, not results.
DeviceParameterValueUnitStatus
HTR-10Thermal capacity (rated)10MWdesign valueclaimed
SUNIST-1Major radius0.3mdesign valueclaimed
SUNIST-1Minor radius0.23mdesign valueclaimed
SUNIST-1On-axis magnetic field0.15Tdesign valueclaimed
SUNIST-1Plasma current0.05MAdesign valueclaimed
SUNIST-1Plasma duration (nominal)0.001sdesign valueclaimed

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