Two rival reactor designs are joining forces to crack fusion’s hardest problems

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Columbia University and Germany's Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics are launching a $13.3 million center to combine the strengths of tokamaks and stellarators, fusion's two rival magnetic designs. From 2027, Columbia researchers will join experiments on Wendelstein 7-X and…