Nuclear-fusion reactor doubles record for energy made from fusing atoms

Re:Nuclear-fusion reactor doubles record for energy made fro... by somat on Thursday February 24, 2022 @09:35AM (#30455175)

For what its worth, the strongest magnets in the world are not superconducting but copper. My understanding is that the high magnetic field interferes with the superconducting mode.

https://nationalmaglab.org/user-facilities/dc-field/instrume...

Not that it has anything to do with plasma research, I just thought it an interesting fact.

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Re:Nuclear-fusion reactor doubles record for energy made fro... by sbierwagen on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @08:56PM (#30536156)

Here's a fun table at which field strengths various superconductors fall out of the superconducting mode https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Upper-critical-fields-an...

ITER uses NbTi, SPARC uses YBCO.

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