Wendelstein 7-X Viewed from the Outside (IMAGE)

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Wendelstein 7-X Viewed from the Outside

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Figure 1:(Left) Wendelstein 7-X viewed from the outside. Visible is a section of the donut shaped vessel which houses the superconducting magnetic field coils. The surface contour of the wall follows the shape of the plasma. On average, the radius of the plasma is 55 cm.

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(Image credit - Glen Wurden, Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics)

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