Skip to content
FusionBenchmark

UTST

The main objectives of UTST are to study central solenoid-free start-up scheme and to obtain high-beta spherical tokamak equilibria by using the plasma merging technique.

Quoted verbatim from the IAEA World Survey of Fusion Devices, not paraphrased.
Type
Fusion device
Approach
Tokamak
Country
JP
Status
Operating
Ownership
public

Measurements

0.35 m Major radius claimed

0.2 m Minor radius claimed

0.1 MA Plasma current claimed

0.25 T On-axis magnetic field claimed

0.01 s Plasma duration claimed

nominal