Financial Status
The Electric Tokamak had run out of funding, and its principal investigator and designer, Robert Taylor, a UCLA professor, has retired. Factors leading to loss of funding are attributed to include its lack of extensive plasma diagnostics, its large size (it was the largest tokamak in the world), and its place in the politics of fusion. When it was operating, The Electric Tokamak was funded mostly by the Department of Energy (DOE). It currently is being used for stress testing of plasma production methods in the Science and Technology Research Building (STRB) on the UCLA campus.
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