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Glossary
Toroidal Field
The main confining field that runs the long way around a tokamak.
The toroidal field, produced by external coils, is the dominant confining field in a tokamak, running the long way around the torus. HYPERION's on-axis toroidal field is 8 T, rising to 16.84 T at the coils.