KTM

The main purpose of the KTM tokamak is to study and test materials and design solutions for protecting the fusion reactor first wall, to develop methods to reduce the heat loads on divertor plates and divertor units as well as various methods of heat and energy removal, including ways to quickly pump out the divertor volume, and develop methods for preventing out-of-order failure of…

Quoted verbatim from the IAEA World Survey of Fusion Devices, not paraphrased.

Operator

Institute of Atomic Energy of National Nuclear Center of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Type

Fusion device

Approach

Tokamak

Country

KZ

Status

Operating

Built

2017

Ownership

public