# #Mon Aug 09 11:52:47 CEST 2010 BranchingPoint__xduCwKObEd-WfYQ0GneCwQ_footer=Source\: Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP), Garching BranchingPoint__xduCwKObEd-WfYQ0GneCwQ_subTitle=Among a multitude of options, two types of construction prevailed for a future fusion reactor\: TOKAMAK and Stellarator.

Common to both is the concept of confining the plasma in a magnetic cage. Distinctions are borne in the method to set up this cage.

The first experimental reactor is intended to be a TOKAMAK. But the Stellarator develops into a serious competitor.

BranchingPoint__xduCwKObEd-WfYQ0GneCwQ_title=The way towards the fusion reactor