• Question: Does MAST stand for anything? If so, what?

    Asked by anon-238389 to James on 12 Mar 2020.
    • Photo: James Roberts

      James Roberts answered on 12 Mar 2020:

      MAST stands for Mega-Amp Spherical Tokamak. Going backwards, a tokamak is the type of plasma-containing fusion device, spherical is the shape of the plasma, and mega-amp is a description of how powerful the device is (mega-amp means it is roughly medium-sized compared to other reactors)

      You can find more info here, if you’re interested: https://ccfe.ukaea.uk/research/mast-upgrade/

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