| Steady State Superconducting Tokamak | |
|---|---|
| Device type | Tokamak |
| Location | Gandhinagar, India |
| Affiliation | Department of Atomic Energy |
| Technical specifications | |
| Major radius | 1.1 m (3 ft 7 in) |
| Minor radius | 0.2 m (7.9 in) |
| Magnetic field | 3 T (30,000 G) |
| History | |
| Year(s) of operation | 2005–present |
| Links | |
| Website | www |
SST-1 (or Steady State Superconducting Tokamak) is a plasma confinement experimental device in the Institute for Plasma Research (IPR), an autonomous research institute under Department of Atomic Energy, India. It belongs to a new generation of tokamaks with the major objective being steady state operation of an advanced configuration ('D' Shaped) plasma. It has been designed as a medium-sized tokamak with superconducting magnets.
The SST-1 project helped India become capable of conceptualizing and making a fully functional fusion based reactor device. The SST-1 System is housed in Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar. The SST-1 mission has been chaired by Indian plasma physicists Prof. Y.C. Saxena, Dr. Chenna Reddy, and is headed by Dr. Subrata Pradhan.
Next stage of the SST-1 mission, the SST-2, dubbed as 'DEMO', has already been initiated.[1]