EUROfusion Glossary

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Glossary Term: Reversed Field Pinch

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Reversed Field Pinch devices are types of tokamaks whose toroidal magnetic field reverses direction as one moves further from the torus’ centre. The poloidal and toroidal fields are of comparable magnitude.