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Tokamak
A toroidal magnetic-confinement device; the most-studied fusion configuration.
A tokamak confines plasma in a doughnut-shaped magnetic field made from external toroidal-field coils and a current driven through the plasma itself. It is the most experimentally mature fusion configuration. HYPERION is a compact, low-aspect-ratio tokamak — a spherical tokamak.