ITER, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, may be the grandest scientific experiment in the world. Initially ...

inertial confinement fusion, which uses powerful lasers, and magnetic confinement fusion, which uses powerful magnets. While the "experiment of the century" used inertial confinement fusion ...

Nowadays, there are two main approaches for fusion energy research: Magnetic confinement fusion Magnetic confinement fusion is based on the fact that ions and electrons cannot easily travel across a ...

Scientists use magnetic confinement devices to manipulate plasmas. The most common fusion reactors of that kind are tokamaks and stellarators. Currently, these are the most promising concepts for ...