en.Wedoany.com Reported - The U.S. Department of Energy and the German Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics recently signed a ten-year cooperation agreement to conduct joint research on the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator facility located in Greifswald, Germany. W7-X is currently the world's largest stellarator device, which confines plasma through complex magnetic fields to explore the feasibility of magnetic confinement fusion energy.

Under the terms of the agreement, U.S. scientists will gain more opportunities to participate in the experimental operation and data analysis of W7-X, and will share technical achievements with researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. The cooperation between the two parties will last for ten years, centered on the W7-X facility in Greifswald, Germany, with modes of collaboration involving experimental operation, data sharing, and technical exchange. The agreement promotes international collaboration in the field of stellarator fusion research, injecting new momentum into the long-term partnership between the U.S. and Europe in the field of fusion energy.

The stellarator uses complex magnetic fields generated by external coils to achieve stable plasma confinement and is considered one of the potential technical pathways for future fusion reactors. As the largest experimental device on this technical pathway, W7-X undertakes the critical task of verifying the feasibility of the stellarator concept. The long-term cooperation framework established between the U.S. Department of Energy and the German Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics around W7-X will help accelerate the scientific exploration process of fusion energy.

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