Description

Globus-M is the first in Russia and one of the three largest spherical tokamaks in the world. The facility is designed to study physical processes and to test technologies and engineering solutions related to heating, confinement and stability of subthermonuclear plasma in a spherical configuration with a diverter.

Spherical tokamaks are a limiting case of the conventional tokamak and are characterized by a small torus radius ratio (aspect ratio). The results achieved on spherical tokamaks allow us to consider this type of facility as an attractive potential basis for creating devices on the scale of a fusion neutron source, as well as, in the long term, a fusion reactor.

The Globus-M Faculity is equipped with powerful systems of additional plasma heating - high energy atom injectors and HF complex for heating at frequencies of ion cyclotron resonance. To generate induction-free current in plasma, a complex is used to inject electromagnetic radiation into plasma in the frequency range of the lower hybrid resonance. The tokamak is also equipped with a set of modern diagnostic systems. Numerous diagnostic techniques have been developed for research. The magnetic system of the facility is powered directly from the city power grid.