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_0ffh on Feb 7, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Plasma physicist discusses the Wendelstein 7-X ste...

Nitpick: IIRC the stellarator is in fact the slightly older design. It's just that it was more or less given up on in favor of the tokamak, due to the design and construction issues.

wibr on Feb 7, 2016 [–]

You are right: stellerator 1950, tokamak 1952 according to wikipedia

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