Successor to Wendelstein 7-X: optimised stellarator designs for a fusion power plant

Stellarator-type nuclear fusion devices are promising candidates on the road to a power plant. At the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Greifswald, we operate Wendelstein 7-X, the world's most powerful experimental facility of this type. Building on this, we have now developed optimised stellarator designs with key properties for use in a power plant for the first time.