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The race is on to harness the near-infinite power of nuclear fusion—by building a star on Earth. And scientists are closer ...

As stellarator configurations are challenging to build, most fusion experiments today are tokamaks (a short form for a Russian expression that translates as ‘toroidal chamber with magnetic coils’).