TFTR
- Country: USA
- Role: Fusion
- Status: Decommissioned
- Year: 1982
Overview
The Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. It was one of the first machines to run on a deuterium tritium fuel mix and in 1994 produced 10.7 MW of fusion power, a record at the time. It was shut down in 1997 and dismantled.
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