The Frascati Tokamak Upgrade (FTU) is a

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operating at

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. Building on the

Frascati Tokamak Frascati () is a city and in the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital in the Lazio region of central Italy. It is located south-east of Rome, on the Alban Hills close to the ancient city of Tusculum. Frascati is closely associated with science, b ...

experiment, FTU is a compact, high-magnetic-field tokamak (B_tor = 8

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). It began operation in 1990 and has since achieved operating goals of 1.6 MA at 8 T and average electron density greater than 4 per cubic meter. The poloidal section of FTU is circular, with a limiter.

External links

Official website
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