Small may be beautiful– for fusion power design
Could a much smaller, spherical ‘tokamak’ – the traditionally doughnutshaped vessel built to confine large nuclear fusion reactors – be the key to getting this exciting technology closer to commercial viability? Austen Adams and David Kingham explain the challenges involved and some of the opportunities ahead.
Article details
Journal title: Energy World
Region: UK
Publisher: Energy Institute
Subjects: Engineering, Nuclear engineering, Research and development, Nuclear energy research, Electricity generation, Electricity from nuclear fuel, Hydrogen, Nuclear fuels, Nuclear reactors, Nuclear fusion
