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A simple fusion recipe

Permanent magnets could help to optimize the geometry of a future fusion reactor.
Numerical calculation of the distribution of permanent magnets needed to create a toroidal stellarator magnetic field.

Visualization of how a stellarator’s plasma (orange) can be manipulated using a combination of permanent magnets (red and blue) and superconducting coils (grey rings). Credit: C. Zhu/PPPL

Researchers have proposed a simplified design for nuclear-fusion reactors, based on powerful permanent magnets.

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Nature 579, 323 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00745-7

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Phys. Rev. Lett. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.095001

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