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magnetic confinement

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magnetic confinement
n
(Physics / Nuclear Physics) another name for containment [3]


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A brief history of magnetic confinement fusion power plant conceptual designs, focusing on tokamaks, is outlined in this book.
Laser fusion could achieve ignition before magnetic confinement fusion, but there's a big difference between [that and] achieving ignition in a magnetic machine because it is a continuous operation," said Duarte Borba who works at Jet, an experimental magnetic fusion reactor on the same Oxfordshire site.
However, most civilian energy projects have focused on magnetic confinement techniques, which use large-sized plasmas and longer time periods to create fusion reactions.
 
 
 
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