I wonder if they have perfected a way to use controllable static magnetic fields generated in superconductive coils to contain the reaction and keep it away from the containment wall?
Seems very cranky since it takes so much liquified gas to maintain the extremely low temps required for the coils. And just how could you manage to carefully manipulate the static fields created? Of course room temp superconductors would greatly simplify this (Unobtainium - see “Avatar”)
The only thing I can think of off hand is to somehow electronically switch the fields by shifting the current flowing in the superconducting coils from one coil to another.... makes me think of a perpetual motion machine for some reason.
The real losers from an invention like this would be the makers of solar panels and windmills.
I can’t wait to see how the enviro-NAZI groups disparage this. After all they think that anything that increases human prosperity is evil. We haven’t suffered enough to ever be happy