An Assessment of the Department of Energy's Office of Fusion Energy Sciences Program (2001) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix C: The Family of Magnetic Confinement Configurations
Appendix C: The Family of Magnetic Confinement Configurations
Pages 91-93
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The vocabulary of fusion concepts is rather unfortunate each variation of the magnetic configuration is labeled with a distinct and rather nondescriptive name. While it provides a useful taxonomy for fusion scientists, it can give the wrong impression that is, that the family of concepts is a disjointed set of trial-and-error experiments, when it is, in fact, a set of variations that are connected by common plasma physics.
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Stellarators offer physics advances by enabling the study of plasma stability in the absence of plasma current and the investigation of new symmetry principles. For example, in the new quasi-symmetric stellarator configuration, a complicated three-dimensional magnetic structure would appear as nearly two-dimensional to an orbiting particle.
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Magnetized target fusion compresses a compact toroid to densities intermediate between those of magnetically and inertially confined plasmas. It offers a new, perhaps simpler approach to fusion, as well as access to plasma physics regimes.
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