Nuclear Fusion — Does China Have Another Approach?

70 years, still counting…

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To my knowledge, there have until recently been two main technical approaches in the quest for peaceful nuclear fusion power:

• A magnetic enclosure constraining plasma which is heated. The most ‘namesy’ one is the Russian ‘Tokomak’ approach— essentially a toroidal magnetic enclosure. There are many research…