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A hot debut

Nature Physics volume 14, pages 779–780 (2018)Cite this article

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The first campaign of the largest stellarator ever built, Wendelstein 7-X, has been successful, achieving high electron temperatures and minimal self-generated plasma current. This is very encouraging for future long-pulse, full-power operation.

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Fig. 1: Plasma boundary for the new stellarator Wendelstein 7-X.

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