Uploaded July 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The divertor is the exhaust system of the tokamak, the world's most advanced fusion device. It gives us a way of managing the high levels of heat and power from the hot plasma fuel, and also a way of removing impurities.
Here, Dr Melanie Windridge is joined by Dr Steven McNamara, Physics Programme Manager, and Dr Daniel Iglesias Ibanez, Divertor Team Leader, to show us how divertors, limiters and sacrificial regions can be used to manage the extreme heat loads in the tokamak.
The divertor is the exhaust system of the tokamak, the world's most advanced fusion device. It gives us a way of managing the high levels of heat and power from the hot plasma fuel, and also a way of removing impurities.
Here, Dr Melanie Windridge is joined by Dr Steven McNamara, Physics Programme Manager, and Dr Daniel Iglesias Ibanez, Divertor Team Leader, to show us how divertors, limiters and sacrificial regions can be used to manage the extreme heat loads in the tokamak.
