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Island divertor

Fusion

Stellarator exhaust using magnetic islands.

An island divertor uses naturally occurring or imposed magnetic islands at the plasma edge to intercept heat and particles.

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Stellarators

Stellarators are "generators of stellar energy", and their principle was discovered before tokamaks. A helical-twisted magnetic field, necessary for successful plasma confinement, is generated only by magnetic coils of various shapes. The stellarator is a device capable of contin

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Divertor

Exhaust system at the plasma edge.

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Stellarator

Magnetic fusion device with 3D external coils.