Stellarator
Stellarators are toroidal magnetic confinement fusion devices. In stellarators, the confinement is produced entirely by external magnetic fields and plasma current does not significantly contribute to the confining field. This is in contrast to their cousin, the tokamak which carries a plasma current in the toroidal direction.
Stellarators enable steady state operation for longer periods of time and suffer fewer instabilities compared to tokamaks. The trade off is that stellarators are more complex to build and design.
Other Concepts
- Polywell
- Steady Inductive Helicity Injection (SIHI)
- Spherical Torus
- Spherical Tokamak
- Laser Inertial Confinement Fusion
- Fusor
- PJMIF (Plasma Jet Magneto Inertial Fusion)
- Cyclotron Frequency
- Spherator
- Z Pinch
- Magnetic Compression of FRC
- Magnetic Cusp Confinemnt
- Field Reversed Configuration (FRC)
- ReBCO High Temperature Superconducting Tape
- Neutron Source
- Accelerator
- Hybrid Inertial Electrostatic/Magnetic Confinement
- Dense Plasma Focus
- Magnetized Liner Inertial Fusion (MagLIF)
- Inertial Electrostatic
- Merging Plasma Plectonemes
- Divertor
- Reverse Field Pinch
- Stellarator
- Linear Arcjet
- Mirror
- Ion Source
- Liquid Liner Compressor
- Theta Pinch
- Gas Dynamic Trap
- Tandem Mirror
- Staged Z-pinch
- Tokamak
- Fast, High Voltage, High Current Solid State Switches
- Stabilization and Heating of FRC by RMF (Rotating Magnetic Field)
- Neutral Beam Sustainment of FRC
- Spheromak
- Levitated Dipole
- Laser Boron Fusion
- Linear Multipole
- Bohm Diffusion
- Stabilized Pinch
- Flexible Heliac
- Thermal Plasma
- Impact Inertial Confinement
- Shear Flow Stabilization of Z-Pinch
- Multi Mirror
- Electron Beam Intertial
- Beta
- Heavy Ion Fusion
- Magnetic Confinement Fusion
- Non-thermal Plasma