Plasma duration
Wall-clock length of a sustained discharge. Distinct from confinement time, and routinely confused with it in press coverage.
- Vocabulary id
metric:plasma-duration- Scheme
- Metrics
- Records using it
- 45
Measured on 45
ADITYA-UALVANDASDEX UPGRADECOMPASS-UDAMAVANDDIII-DDTTExperimental Advanced Superconducting TokamakEGYPTORETEEXL-50FTUGLAST-IIIGOLEMHL-2AHL-2MHYBTOK-IIIR-T1ITERJ-TEXTJoint European TorusJT-60SAKSTARKTMMAST-UMEDUSA-CRMT-1NOVA-FURGNSTX-UPHIXPLATOSMARTSST-1ST40STOR-MSUNIST-1T-11MT-15MDTCABRTORIXTST-2TUMAN-3MUTSTWendelstein 7-XWEST
See the benchmark for the values, each with its status and source.
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