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Comparisons

What actually distinguishes these approaches, with the devices and organisations behind each side pulled from the dataset rather than asserted.

Tokamak vs stellarator

Both confine plasma magnetically in a torus. The difference is where the twist in the magnetic field comes from — and everything else follows from that.

84 devices · 19 organisations

Magnetic vs inertial confinement

The two dominant routes to fusion. One holds a thin plasma steady for seconds; the other crushes a fuel capsule in nanoseconds. They are not measured with the same yardstick, which is where most confusion starts.

95 devices · 36 organisations

Molten salt reactor vs fluoride salt-cooled reactor

The most common classification error in advanced nuclear, and the one the vocabulary behind this site originally got wrong. Both use molten salt. Only one dissolves the fuel in it.

0 devices · 10 organisations