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Explores the progress in magnetic confinement fusion, roadmaps to fusion power, ITER components, and the path towards DEMO.

Explores the main elements and properties of a tokamak, including shaping, safety factor, equilibrium, and the JET tokamak.

Explores MHD stability, operational limits, fusion device performance, and control mechanisms.

Explores stellarators as alternatives to tokamaks, discussing 3D magnetic configurations, pros and cons, history, and other confinement concepts.

Covers high-confinement regimes, induced current density, fusion plasma self-sustainment, and MHD ideal conditions.

Covers the Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) description of plasma, including MHD equations, conservation properties, and ideal vs. resistive models.

Covers magnetic reconnection, rising flux tubes, the Sweet-Parker model, energy balance, and open questions in plasma physics.

Explores sunspots, the solar cycle, and magnetic fields on the Sun, including the 11-year cycle and the Hale's and Joy's laws.

Explores heating and burning plasmas, ITER, fusion power plants, and the importance of tritium in fusion reactors.

Explores lighting strategies, color rendering, and efficiency of natural and artificial light sources in building physics.