2nd Generation Fusion

While a milestone has been achieved on the pellet smashing front, a new form of plasma confinement has entered the stage:

"Summarizing the difference between the two approaches, Kesner explains that in a tokamak, the hot plasma is confined inside a huge magnet, but in the LDX the magnet is inside the plasma. The whole concept, he says, was inspired by observations of planetary magnetospheres made by interplanetary spacecraft. In turn, he says, for planetary research the experiments in LDX can yield 'a lot more subtle detail than you can get by launching satellites, and more cheaply.'"