Efforts to demonstrate the feasibility of fusion power can benefit from studies of fundamental questions in plasma physics carried out in simplified devices.
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Fasoli, A., Furno, I. & Ricci, P. The role of basic plasmas studies in the quest for fusion power. Nat. Phys. 15, 872–875 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-019-0622-5
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