Research report 2015 - Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (Greifswald)

Start of scientific experimentation at the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device

Authors
Klinger, Thomas; Milch, Isabella
Departments
Bereich „Stellarator-Dynamik und -Transport”
Summary
Following nine years of construction work and one year of technical preparations and tests on 10 December 2015 the first helium plasma was produced in the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) in Greifswald. The first hydrogen plasma was to follow on 3 February 2016, this marking the start of scientific operation. Wendelstein 7-X, the world’s largest fusion device of the stellarator type, is to investigate this configuration’s suitability for use in a power plant.

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