Uploaded July 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
A future nuclear fusion reactor will have to be engineered to deal with extremes of temperature in fairly close proximity. Superconducting magnets operate at close to absolute zero, while a fusion plasma needs to be hundreds of millions of degrees. How does a tokamak deal with such extremes of temperature? Join Rob Slade (Director, Technology Development) and Otto Asunta (Senior Tokamak Physicist) to find out.
A future nuclear fusion reactor will have to be engineered to deal with extremes of temperature in fairly close proximity. Superconducting magnets operate at close to absolute zero, while a fusion plasma needs to be hundreds of millions of degrees. How does a tokamak deal with such extremes of temperature? Join Rob Slade (Director, Technology Development) and Otto Asunta (Senior Tokamak Physicist) to find out.
