Magnetic mirror
Plasma trapped between two regions of strong magnetic field that reflect particles back. Simple and linear, but historically leaky at the ends.
In the record: 4 companies, 0 laboratories and programmes, 9 devices and 0 reactor designs.
Not yet in the record for this approach: reactor designs or measurements.
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Broader: Magnetic confinement
Companies 4
Devices 9
Operating devices first, then those being built or planned, then those shut down, suspended or cancelled.
- GAMMA 10/PDX Operating University of Tsukuba · JP
- GDT Operating Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics · RU
- GOL-NB Operating Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics · RU
- SMOLA Operating Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics · RU
- CAT Under construction Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics · RU
- PILOT GAMMA PDX-SC Under construction University of Tsukuba · JP
- GDMT Planned Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics · RU
- GDMT CORE Planned Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics · RU
- CFR Shut down Lockheed Martin · US
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