DescriptionAEC-70-8726 OAK RIDGE, TENNESSEE. . . THE NEW ORMAK FUSION RESEARCH DEVICE is being fabricated at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and is based on controlled thermonuclear experimental devices of the Soviet "tokamak" class which have shown improved temperatures, plasma densities, and confinement characteristics. It is designed to be a highly symmetrical machine: with a tokamak plasma (1) confined in a high vacuum linear ring accessible to diagnostic instruments at (2) and surrounded by a magnetic field coil (3). A toroidal transformer (4), below the plasma chamber, couples the generators to the upper torus. Plasma current driving windings may be seen at two places (5) and the induction core (6) provides a plasma current near 100,000 amperes. Torus holding bands are at (7). The device is expected to be completed in mid-1970. Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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