Levitated dipole

Confinement around a single magnetically levitated superconducting ring, modelled on how planetary magnetospheres hold plasma. No levitated-dipole device has run at reactor-relevant scale; the main open problem is engineering a superconducting ring that can be levitated, cooled and shielded from neutrons without any physical support.

Organisations and devices by approach: Levitated dipole on the technology page

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approach:levitated-dipole

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Technology approaches

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