Forerunner and pioneer: Wendelstein 7-AS

In 1980, a 'pure' Stellarator regime with a hot plasma is generated, at Wendelstein 7-A in Garching, for the first time.

With the "Advanced Stellarator" W-7AS, which has been optimized under considerable computational efforts, almost all records are broken between 1988 and 2002, and the principles of optimization are experimentally confirmed.

The way is opened for Wendelstein 7-X, the machine that is designed to conceptually draw level with the hitherto dominating Tokamak principle.

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