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A stellarator is a magnetic confinement device. The rotational transform is predominantly generated by external coils - differently to tokamaks for which the poloidal field is generated by plasma currents. Hybrid concepts employ both external coils and self-generated ([[Bootstrap current|bootstrap]]) currents (e.g. NCSX).
A stellarator is a magnetic confinement device. The [[Magnetic shear|rotational transform]] is predominantly generated by external coils - differently to tokamaks for which the poloidal field is generated by plasma currents. Hybrid concepts employ both external coils and self-generated ([[Bootstrap current|bootstrap]]) currents (e.g. NCSX).


[[File:NCSX_plasmaVessel.jpg|200px|thumb|right|NCSX plasma vessel.]]
[[File:NCSX_plasmaVessel.jpg|200px|thumb|right|NCSX plasma vessel.]]