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by dkirtley 4262 days ago
This looks very similar to the old Russian Gas Dynamic Trap: https://e-reports-ext.llnl.gov/pdf/366958.pdf

RF and neutral beam heated steady reactor with very high mirror ratio and superconductors.

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What is the operating temperature of these superconducting magnets?

I can't see how heat energy is supposed to be flowing out of that plasma envelope yet the magnets are supposed to stay at near-zero temps?