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.
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Broader: Magnetic confinement
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