NEE533 Spring99 - Lecture 24

How Magnetic Confinement Works

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A feeling for the size of one current experimental Tokamak, the Joint European Torus (JET), can be seen. While the schematic drawings of a tokamak make them seem relatively simple, the complex magnetic field structures result in interlocking toroidal and poloidal magnets. This complicated geometry can affect maintenance and reliability. (Photo courtesy of TFTR at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory).

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