[bertiewhykovich]

Given that the tagline for the project is "Fusion Reactor for Rust," I'd guess that the project's name is designed to read to English speakers as "Tokamak" while maintaining a "Russian flavor."

EDIT: Not being a Russian speaker, I completely misunderstood this comment -- I apologize for my blithe ignorance.

[stcredzero]

Rust is iron oxide. The project namers weren't thinking about astrophysics. If you fuse iron, you wind up with less energy than you had before.

[the8472]

The oxygen is perfectly fusible, at least if you're a star. Less so in foreseeable tokamak designs.

Not to mention the iron hydroxide in rust.