magnetic confinement
Britishnoun
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Despite decades of effort, no magnetic confinement system has achieved a plasma energy gain greater than 1—that is, break-even.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025
Although the new data show very high pressures, Zap's approach is based on quasi-steady-state magnetic confinement.
From Science Daily • Nov. 20, 2025
The other way, known as magnetic confinement fusion, uses powerful magnets to trap a burning cloud of atoms called plasma.
From BBC • Sep. 9, 2024
So far, however, no magnetic confinement machine has achieved the extreme temperatures and pressure needed to achieve gain.
From Science Magazine • Oct. 1, 2023
The approaches include magnetic confinement of plasma—used by tokamaks and stellarators—and inertial confinement, used by NIF, and a hybrid of the two, among others.
From Scientific American • Dec. 13, 2022
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