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To be fair though - the stellarator design is pretty cool as it doesn't have a plasma current and nowadays we can heat the plasma via beam injection.

The lack of the current might make it more stable vs. the tokamak.




What do you mean by current?


Electric current; net momentum difference between positive and negative charges within the plasma. I.e. nuclei moving clockwise, and electrons counter-clockwise within the tokamak, or vice-versa. The plasma may have a high temperature (and thus induce fusion) without such current.




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