TMX and Historical Tandem Mirrors

The 1980s experiments that established tandem-mirror plugging physics.

Type

Tandem mirror

Era

1980s

The Tandem Mirror Experiment and its contemporaries in the 1980s demonstrated the ambipolar-plug principle and thermal barriers that define the tandem-mirror concept. Their physics — reworked with modern high-field magnets — underpins the Kronos burner.

The burner is a modern realisation of this heritage.