page_title: T-15 (reactor)
hierarchical_section_title: T-15 (reactor)
caption_attribution_description: English: Toroidal winding together with poloidal field coils of the sovjet hybrid tokamak fusion-fission reactor T-15MD. The toroidal magnet system consists of 16 D-shaped coils that form an arched structure. The reactor is preassembled in Bryansk around 2015-2017.&#91;1&#93; Some components are recycled from the T-15 tokamak from 1988.
context_page_description: The T-15 is a Russian nuclear fusion research reactor located at the Kurchatov Institute, which is based on the tokamak design. It was the first industrial prototype fusion reactor to use superconducting magnets to control the plasma. These enormous superconducting magnets confined the plasma the reactor produced, but failed to sustain it for more than just a few seconds. Despite not being immediately applicable, this new technological advancement proved to the USSR that they were on the right path. In the original shape, a toroidal chamber design, it had a major radius of 2.43m and minor radius 0.7m.
  The T-15 achieved creating its first thermonuclear plasma in 1988 and the reactor remained operational until 1995. The plasma created was thought to solve a number of issues engineers have struggled with in the past. This combined with the USSR's desire for cheaper energy ensured the continuing progress of the T-15 under Mikhail S. Gorbachev. It was designed to replace the country's use of gas and coal as the primary sources of energy.
  It achieved 1MA and 1.5MW injection for 1 second pulse. It carried out about 100 shots before closing due to a lack of funds.
context_section_description: The T-15 (or Tokamak-15) is a Russian (previously Soviet) nuclear fusion research reactor located at the Kurchatov Institute, which is based on the (Soviet-invented) tokamak design. It was the first industrial prototype fusion reactor to use superconducting magnets to control the plasma. These enormous superconducting magnets confined the plasma the reactor produced, but failed to sustain it for more than just a few seconds. Despite not being immediately applicable, this new technological advancement proved to the USSR that they were on the right path. In the original (circular cross-section with limiter) shape, a toroidal chamber design, it had a major radius of 2.43m and minor radius 0.7m.
  The T-15 achieved creating its first thermonuclear plasma in 1988 and the reactor remained operational until 1995. The plasma created was thought to solve a number of issues engineers have struggled with in the past. This combined with the USSR's desire for cheaper energy ensured the continuing progress of the T-15 under Mikhail S. Gorbachev. It was designed to replace the country's use of gas and coal as the primary sources of energy.
  It achieved 1MA and 1.5MW injection for 1 second pulse. It carried out about 100 shots before closing (in 1995) due to a lack of funds.
caption: Toroidal winding and poloidal field coils after disassembly
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