Fusion devices that hold hot plasma with magnetic fields, including Z-pinches, field-reversed configurations, magnetic mirrors, spherical tokamaks, levitated dipoles, spheromaks, bumpy tori, toroidal solenoids and magnetized target fusion. A technology belongs here when its cited article describes such a magnetic confinement concept. Each of these concepts tries to keep very hot plasma away from the walls of its vessel using magnetic fields of a particular shape, and they differ in the shape of the field and the plasma. A device is placed here by the confinement concept the cited article describes.
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Wikipedia: Z-pinch
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In fusion power research, the Z-pinch (zeta pinch) is a type of plasma confinement system that uses an electric current in the plasma to generate a magnetic field that compresses it (see pinch).
Wikipedia: Field-reversed configuration
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A field-reversed configuration (FRC) is a type of plasma device studied as a means of producing nuclear fusion.
Wikipedia: Magnetic mirror
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A magnetic mirror, also known as a magnetic trap or sometimes as a pyrotron, is a type of magnetic confinement fusion device used in fusion power to trap high-temperature plasma using magnetic fields.
Wikipedia: Spherical tokamak
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A spherical tokamak is a type of fusion power device based on the tokamak principle.
Wikipedia: Levitated Dipole Experiment
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The Levitated Dipole Experiment (LDX) was an experiment investigating the generation of fusion power using the concept of a levitated dipole.
Wikipedia: Spheromak
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A spheromak is an arrangement of plasma formed into a toroidal shape similar to a smoke ring.
Wikipedia: Bumpy torus
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The bumpy torus is a class of magnetic fusion energy devices that consist of a series of magnetic mirrors connected end-to-end to form a closed torus.
Wikipedia: Toroidal solenoid
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The toroidal solenoid was an early 1946 design for a fusion power device designed by George Paget Thomson and Moses Blackman of Imperial College London.
Wikipedia: Magnetized target fusion
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Magnetized target fusion (MTF) is a fusion power concept that combines features of magnetic confinement fusion (MCF) and inertial confinement fusion (ICF).
Wikipedia: Reversed Field Pinch
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A reversed-field pinch (RFP) is a device used to produce and contain near-thermonuclear plasmas.
Wikipedia: Magnetized liner inertial fusion
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Magnetized liner inertial fusion (MagLIF) is an ongoing Z-pinched-fusion power experiment being carried out on the Z Pulsed Power Facility (Z-machine) at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico, United States.
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