The Gas Dynamic Trap is a magnetic mirror machine being operated at the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics in Akademgorodok, Russia.
Dimensions The plasma inside the machine fills a cylinder of space, 7 meters long and 28 centimeters in diameter.
[1] This change in the strength is needed to reflect the particles and get them internally trapped (see: the magnetic mirror effect).
Performance As of 2016, the machine had achieved a plasma trapping beta of 0.6 for 5 milliseconds.
[3] During any given experiment, operators can choose from at least 15 fusion diagnostics to measure the machines' behavior:[2]