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University of Illinois

馃嚭馃嚫 Urbana-Champaign, US 路 Active

Also known as UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is a public land-grant research university founded in 1867. Its Center for Plasma-Material Interactions, set up in 2004, studies how plasmas, including fusion plasmas, interact with the surfaces of materials. The IAEA World Survey of Fusion Devices lists the university as the operator of HIDRA, a stellarator.

Sector
Fusion
Role
University, Operator

It is the operator of record for University of Illinois Advanced TRIGA (decommissioned) and HIDRA (operating).

Design values

Design values for devices operated by University of Illinois. These are what a machine was built to do, not results.
DeviceParameterValueUnitStatus
HIDRAMajor radius0.72mdesign valueclaimed
HIDRAMinor radius0.19mdesign valueclaimed
HIDRAOn-axis magnetic field0.5Tdesign valueclaimed
University of Illinois Advanced TRIGAThermal capacity (rated)1.5MWdesign valueclaimed

Devices

University of Illinois Advanced TRIGAWater-cooledDecommissioned1 figure on recordHIDRAStellaratorOperating3 figures on record

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