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thumb|360x360px|Example of a stellarator design, as used in the [[Wendelstein 7-X experiment:

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28 sections
Contents
  • History
  • Previous work
  • Stellarator
  • Matterhorn
  • Early devices
  • Model C
  • Other approaches
  • Tokamak surge
  • Stellarator returns
  • 2000-
  • Transport losses
  • Divertor
  • Private sector
  • Concepts
  • Requirements for fusion
  • Magnetic confinement
  • Stellarator
  • Alternative designs
  • Heating
  • Inherent problems
  • Plasma heating
  • Configurations
  • See also
  • Notes
  • References
  • Citations
  • Bibliography
  • External links

thumb|360x360px|Example of a stellarator design, as used in the Wendelstein 7-X experiment:

A series of magnet coils (blue) surrounds the plasma (yellow). A magnetic field line is highlighted in green on the yellow plasma surface.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “stellarator” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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