Alcator C-Mod

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Alcator C-Mod is a tokamak, a magnetically confined nuclear fusion device, at the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center. It is the tokamak with the highest magnetic field and highest plasma density in the world. It is one of the major fusion research facilities in the US, together DIII-D at General Atomics and NSTX at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.

Operating since 1993, it is the third of the Alcator (Alto Campo Torus, High Field Torus) tokamak series, following Alcator A (1975-1982) and Alcator C (1982-1988).

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Methods of fusing nuclei
Magnetic confinement: Tokamak - Spheromak - Stellarator - Reversed field pinch - Field-Reversed Configuration - Levitated Dipole Inertial confinement: Laser driven - Z-pinch - Bubble fusion Cold fusion: Muon-catalyzed fusion Inertial electrostatic confinement: Farnsworth–Hirsch Fusor Pyroelectric fusion
Fusion experiments
Magnetic confinement devices ITER (International) | JET (European) | JT-60 (Japan) | Large Helical Device (Japan) | EAST (China) | T-15 (Russia) | DIII-D (USA) | TFTR (USA) | NSTX (USA) | NCSX (USA) | Alcator C-Mod (USA) | LDX (USA) | PACER (USA) | H-1NF (Australia) | MAST (UK) | START (UK) | DEMO (Commercial) Inertial confinement devices NIF (USA) | Nova laser (USA) | OMEGA laser (USA) | Shiva laser (USA) Z machine (USA) See also: International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility

External links

• [Alcator C-Mod homepage]

 

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