ELM

Fusion

Edge localised mode in tokamak plasmas.

ELMs are bursty instabilities at the edge of high-confinement tokamak plasmas that dump heat onto divertor targets.

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Divertor

The word "tokamak" is of Russian origin and means "toroidal chamber and magnetic coils." This magnetic confinement system holds plasma in magnetic fields of toroidal shape. The first tokamak, the T-1, started operation in 1958 in Russia, and since then the greatest advances in th

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Divertor

Exhaust system at the plasma edge.