Nuclear Fusion VIII: Kinky and Unstable

In the early 1950s, optimism surrounding the potential for
nuclear fusion in devices like the Stellarator, the pinch
devices, and the magnetic mirror were frustrated by plasma
instabilities. It turns out that you cannot treat plasmas like
charged particles whizzing around in magnetic fields - instead,
the complex theory of magnetohydrodynamics needs to be taken into
account, and, as the name suggests, it's not easy to
understand! 

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