Talk:Magnetic confinement fusion

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The links to citation number one seems to be missing.

I think it would be good to separate the definition of the various magnetic field geometries from their historical evolution. For example, it may be true that Spitzer's first stellarator was a figure eight, but twist supplied by currents external to the plasma is a better definition of what it means to be a stellarator. Similarly, just because the classic baseball seam coil has the max field gradient at one end at right angles to the max field gradient at the other end, doesn't make that the defining characteristic of the mirror. I suggest the taxonomy be laid out first, followed by historical examples. JohnAspinall 18:06, 7 September 2007 (UTC)