bootstrap current

nuclear physics

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  • 3D illustration of a tokamak fusion reactor
    In fusion reactor: Toroidal confinement

    This current is called the bootstrap current. It can be considered a type of thermoelectric effect, but its origin is in the complex particle dynamics that arise in a toroidal plasma. It has been observed in experiments and is now included routinely in advanced experiments and in tokamak reactor designs.

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