You may not have heard of a Stellarator before, but if all goes well later this month in a small university town in the far northeast of Germany, you will. That’s because the Wendelstein 7-X is ...

A France-based company is using stellarator technology to accelerate fusion research in Europe. Renaissance Fusion is building stellarators that it claims could be the most efficient, steady, and ...

The stellarator is supposed to operate continuously, so maybe you only want the diverter in the plasma at certain times, and then you have to walk the plasma onto the wall at the right location.

Type One’s stellarator design incorporates three key innovations: an optimized magnetic field for plasma stability, advanced manufacturing techniques, and cutting-edge HTS magnets.

Developed over 70 years ago, the stellarator has long been ignored in favor of options like tokamak reactors. It might be time for its 'quasiaxisymmetry' to shine. By Andrew Paul Published Apr 5 ...

The strangely-named and quirky-looking Wendelstein 7-x nuclear fusion stellarator has been 15 years in construction and may help realize the long-held goal of continuous operation essential for ...

As the climate crisis worsens and energy needs grow, scientists are racing to unlock a cleaner and safer energy future. Among the most promising solutions is nuclear fusion—an energy source that ...

The stellarator of our dreams lives in computer code. We're hoping to realize it with the W7-X, but our code base is incomplete; the model used to design the stellarator does not contain all the ...

In the past experimentation round Wendelstein 7-X achieved higher temperatures and densities of the plasma, longer pulses and the stellarator record for the fusion product. Moreover, first ...

Proxima Fusion claims it came up with a way to address these issues using both engineering solutions and advanced computing in 2022, and as a spin-out, the company has now built on research from ...

The stellarator is also not the only fusion concept getting the startup treatment. Following the success of the National Ignition Facility’s fusion test in December 2022, ...

The stellarator fights for a place in the green energy future. It was on a ski lift in Aspen in 1951, according to legend, that the physicist Lyman Spitzer dreamt up the stellarator — a machine ...