page_title: SCR-1
hierarchical_section_title: SCR-1
caption_attribution_description: English: SCR-1 (Stellarator of Costa Rica 1) vacuum vessel drawing
context_page_description: The Stellarator of Costa Rica 1 is a small modular stellarator for the magnetic confinement of plasma located at Cartago, Costa Rica. It is developed by the plasmaTEC group of the Plasma Laboratory for Fusion Energy and Applications at Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica. It began operation as Latin America's first stellarator on 29 June 2016.
  SCR-1 is of a compact design and has the distinction of having the smallest aspect ratio of any operating stellarator device. Its design is influenced by the small Spanish stellarator UST-1.
context_section_description: The Stellarator of Costa Rica 1 (or SCR-1) is a small modular stellarator for the magnetic confinement of plasma located at Cartago, Costa Rica. It is developed by the plasmaTEC group of the Plasma Laboratory for Fusion Energy and Applications at Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica. It began operation as Latin America's first stellarator on 29 June 2016.
  SCR-1 is of a compact design and has the distinction of having the smallest aspect ratio of any operating stellarator device (>4.4). Its design is influenced by the small Spanish stellarator UST-1.
caption: SCR-1 vacuum vessel and coil structure
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