Open and non-toroidal magnetic confinement

Open-field devices trade the closed torus for simpler geometry and accept that field lines leave the confinement region. Magnetic mirrors reflect particles from regions of stronger field; tandem mirrors add electrostatic end plugs and gas-dynamic mirrors operate collisionally. Cusp fields form from opposed currents with a central null where the field vanishes. The levitated dipole suspends a superconducting ring so the plasma sits in the ring's own dipole field.

Each device core below is the single owner of its reactor family's configuration truth inside the SCPN Reactor Systems research group. Solver mathematics stays in SCPN-Fusion-Core, shared physics and geometry kernels in SCPN Reactor Kernels; a device core consumes them through versioned seams and cannot actuate anything directly.

Device cores in this family

• SCPN-MIRROR-CORE · Magnetic mirror · The Magnetic Bottle, Declared Truth Owns the configurations: gas-dynamic mirror, simple magnetic mirror, tandem mirror repository · architecture stage: device configuration truth, no release, no demo
• SCPN-MAGNETIC-CUSP-CORE · Magnetic cusp · Opposed Currents, Central Null Owns the configurations: cusp repository · architecture stage: device configuration truth, no release, no demo
• SCPN-LEVITATED-DIPOLE-CORE · Levitated dipole · A Ring Afloat In Its Own Field Owns the configurations: levitated dipole repository · architecture stage: device configuration truth, no release, no demo

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