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Tokamak cannot be spherical since To stand for Toroidal. How about Sphekamak?

• adastra22 4y ago
  It is toroidal, just compressed so small that the packaging is spherical.
• sbierwagen 4y ago
  "Spheromak" is already taken by a very different reactor design: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spheromak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spheromak
  • omneity 4y ago
    It doesn't seem to be so fundamentally different. Quoting the Wiki: Spherical tokamak, essentially a spheromak formed around a central conductor/magnet
• wiml 4y ago
  There's already something called a "spheromak" (I'm not sure what the difference is except they've been around for a while and apparently they're not good prospects for energy production — they have other scientific uses)