Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor
also TFTR
TFTR set a number of world records, including a plasma temperature of 510 million degrees centigrade — the highest ever produced in a laboratory.
Quoted verbatim from the IAEA World Survey of Fusion Devices, not paraphrased.
- Operator
- Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
- Type
- Fusion device
- Approach
- Tokamak
- Fuel
- D-T
- Country
- US
- Status
- Shut down
Measurements
7.9 × 10²⁰ m⁻³·keV·s Fusion triple product (nTτ_E) claimed
measured 1995-02-17 · shot 83546
43 keV Ion temperature claimed
measured 1995-02-17 · shot 83546
6.6 × 10¹⁹ m⁻³ Plasma density claimed
measured 1995-02-17 · shot 83546
0.28 s Energy confinement time (τ_E) claimed
measured 1995-02-17 · shot 83546
0.28 Plasma gain (Q_plasma) claimed
Denominator: External heating power coupled into the plasma
measured 1994-05-27 · shot 76778
5.1 × 10⁸ K Ion temperature claimed