Magnetic confinement

MCF

Holding a hot plasma away from material walls using magnetic fields, sustained for seconds to steady-state rather than the nanosecond pulses of inertial confinement. The open problem shared by every configuration below is exhausting the plasma's heat and helium ash without eroding the wall that must survive it for years, not seconds.

Organisations and devices by approach: Magnetic confinement on the technology page

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approach:magnetic-confinement

Scheme

Technology approaches

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