The DIII-D reactor at General Atomics in San Diego is a respectably large tokamak fusion reactor with ohmic heating, ion-cyclotron and electron-cyclotron resonance heating and neutral beam injection. Typical experimental parameter space achieves a lawson criterion confinement better than most other fusion reactors and on par with the now decomissioned TFTR but not as good as JT-60 or JET, not to mention ITER. Recommended wiki article: "List of fusion experiments" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fusion_experiments

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Nice first post gluonium!

woah, lots of people must have missed this, awesome first post.

i think all that science just gave me a chubby.

Awesome! I'm especially pleased that this means there's another great podcast I can subscribe to.

I'd suggest taking nuclear, fusion and tokamak out of the tags (because a search will already find these words in the title) and add in "scientific american". It's one of those identifiers, like "TED talk" or "David Attenborough", that can get people's attention because they associate those names with quality.

Congratulations on getting your first published post -- NOW!

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