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Up to now, the principal efforts of fusion research have been devoted to better confinement of high temperature plasmas. In this chapter, we briefly outline these efforts. First in Sect. 9.1, we present the principle of thermonuclear fusion, with particular attention paid to the basic requirements imposed on a plasma used for the core of the thermonuclear fusion reactor. Two different approaches to achieving the confiniment of such core plasmas — magnetic confinement and inertial confinement — are briefly described in the remaining two sections.
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Nishikawa, K., Wakatani, M. (1994). Plasma Confinement for Fusion. In: Plasma Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03068-4_9
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