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Tokamaks have become large, too large according to many. Spherical tokamaks are much more compact. Promising results were obtained in the 1990s at Culham and from the beginning of this century research on spherical tokamaks is on the upsurge. It is still a young field that makes rapid progress but has not yet broken any new ground compared with conventional tokamaks. This chapter gives the details.
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Such component test facilities are not uncommon for power plants. For fission power plants they were widely used during the 1950s–1960s, but also for fossil fuel power plants they are not uncommon. For instance, in 2013 the EU has published a CTF design for a 700 °C coal-based power plant to test high temperature durable new materials needed to realise such a power plant with efficiencies above 50%.
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Reinders, L.J. (2021). Spherical Tokamaks. In: The Fairy Tale of Nuclear Fusion. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64344-7_11
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