The ions must be held together in close proximity at high temperature with a confinement time long enough to avoid cooling. Nowadays, there are two main approaches for fusion energy research: Magnetic ...

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 ...

Despite this, it’s good to see that the NIF’s ICF research is bearing fruit, even if for energy production we should look towards magnetic confinement fusion (MCF), which includes the many ...