Neutral beam injection

Fusion

Heating plasma with energetic neutrals.

NBI accelerates ions, neutralizes them so they can cross magnetic fields, and injects them into plasma where they ionize and transfer energy.

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External Heating

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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Plasma

Ionized gas of charged particles.