IPP Projects

Wendelstein 7-X



The Wendelstein 7-X stellarator, now being built at the Greifswald Branch of IPP, will test a magnetic field optimised to overcome the difficulties of previous stellarator concepts. The quality of plasma equilibrium and confinement will be comparable to that of a tokamak.

The predecessor, Wendelstein 7-AS (1988 - 2002), the first experiment of the new generation of "Advanced Stellarators", was putting this concept for an improved magnetic field to the first test. The further developed follow-up device, Wendelstein 7-X, is now to demonstrate the reactor relevance of the new stellarators.




Magnetic coil and plasma of the stellarator Wendelstein 7-X

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The predecessor: