Sentences with phrase «tokamak research reactor»

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If the president's request is approved by Congress it will put a severe squeeze on the U.S. domestic fusion program and will force the closure of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Alcator C - Mod reactor, one of only three large machines, known as tokamaks, in the United States that are doing vital research in preparation for ITER.

South Korea is already developing the Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (K - STAR) project and contributing to ITER, the $ 15 - billion (US$ 20 - billion) experimental reactor being built in Cadarache, France, under the auspices of an international collaboration.

The report says the US should focus research initiatives on the biggest impediments to ITER's donut - like design, called a tokamak — how to control the writhing plasma at the reactor's core, and understanding how it interacts with surrounding material in order to engineer walls that can maintain the reaction.