Nuclear Fusion / Students At Australia University To Design, Build And Operate Non-Nuclear Tokamak

Aim is to have working device within two to three years

Students At Australia University To Design, Build And Operate Non-Nuclear Tokamak

The University of New South Wales in Australia is set to house the world’s first fusion facility designed, built and operated by students.

The fusion-capable machine will be tokamak, a doughnut-shaped vacuum chamber with powerful magnets to control and heat streams of plasma to extreme temperatures, at which point nuclear fusion is possible.

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