Fusion Experiment Demonstrates Cheaper Stellerator Using Creative Magnet Workaround

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Fusion Experiment Demonstrates Cheaper Stellerator Using Creative Magnet Workaround

Popular Science reports that early last week, researchers at the U.S. Energy Department's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory revealed their new "MUSE" stellarator — "a unique fusion reactor that uses off-the-shelf and 3D-printed materials to contain its superheated plasma." The researchers...