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Tritium fuel cycle
The tritium fuel cycle is the closed loop of processes by which a deuterium-tritium fusion plant recovers unburned fuel from the exhaust and breeds replacement tritium from lithium.
Tritium Laboratory Karlsruhe
The Tritium Laboratory Karlsruhe (TLK, German: Tritiumlabor Karlsruhe) is a research facility at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, dedicated in 1993 for handling tritium, the radioactive isotope of hydrogen.
Tritium Systems Test Assembly
The Tritium Systems Test Assembly, or TSTA, was a Los Alamos National Laboratory facility, begun in 1978, for full-scale testing of deuterium-tritium fuel processing for fusion reactors.
TST-2
TST-2 (Tokyo Spherical Tokamak-2) is a spherical tokamak at the University of Tokyo's Kashiwa campus, built in 1999 as an upgrade of TST-M to study radio-frequency current drive.
Tungsten divertor
A tungsten divertor is the bottom structure of a tokamak that exhausts heat and helium ash, its plasma-facing surface made of water-cooled tungsten, chosen for ITER.
Vertical stabilization
Vertical stabilization is the active magnetic feedback control holding a tokamak's elongated plasma centered vertically, an instability inherent to elongated cross sections and controlled since the 1980s.
VEST (tokamak)
VEST (Versatile Experiment Spherical Torus) is a spherical tokamak at Seoul National University, South Korea, the country's first and only spherical torus device, operating since 2012.
X-divertor
The X-divertor is an advanced tokamak divertor configuration with a second X-point, proposed around 2004 at the University of Texas at Austin to spread exhaust heat.
Z Pulsed Power Facility
The Z Pulsed Power Facility, or Z machine, is a pulsed-power accelerator at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque that produces the world's most powerful laboratory X-ray pulses.
Zap Energy
Zap Energy is an American fusion energy company in Everett, Washington, co-founded in 2017 by Uri Shumlak, Brian Nelson, and Benj Conway to develop a sheared-flow-stabilized Z-pinch reactor.
ZEUS laser
ZEUS, short for Zettawatt-Equivalent Ultrashort pulse laser System, is a 3-petawatt Ti:sapphire laser facility at the University of Michigan, the most powerful in the United States.
ZT-40
ZT-40, later upgraded to ZT-40M, was a reversed-field pinch magnetic confinement experiment built at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1979 to test compact fusion reactors.