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brohee ◴[] No.44636410[source]
Does it kill the idea of a tokamak as an energy production device? As in a stellarator proving the much more promising design...
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1. cyberax ◴[] No.44637217[source]
It'll be a question of manufacturing. A tokamak is a fairly simple torus, with at least some similar parts. Stellerators are freakishly complicated 3D structures that require submillimeter precision.

So it might end up being cheaper to construct a larger tokamak.