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Section sizes

Section size for Fusion power (67 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	6,355	6,355
Terminology	823	823
Background	654	12,138
Mechanism	2,001	2,001
Cross section	2,138	2,138
Lawson criterion	1,638	1,638
Triple product: density, temperature, time	3,673	3,673
Energy capture	2,034	2,034
Plasma behavior	2,366	2,366
Methods	390	19,281
Magnetic confinement	6,057	6,057
Inertial confinement	3,479	3,479
Magnetic or electric pinches	3,671	3,671
Inertial electrostatic confinement	401	401
Other thermonuclear	1,771	1,771
Other non-thermonuclear	2,080	2,080
Negative power methods	1,432	1,432
Common tools	282	22,932
Machine learning	1,439	1,439
Heating	4,282	4,282
Measurement	6,672	6,672
Power production	3,190	3,190
Confinement	1,262	7,067
Magnetic confinement	31	2,076
Magnetic Mirror	1,474	1,474
Magnetic loops	571	571
Inertial confinement	1,222	3,729
Electrostatic confinement	2,507	2,507
Fuels	1,309	13,329
Deuterium, tritium	4,823	4,823
Deuterium	2,967	2,967
Deuterium, helium-3	1,140	1,140
Proton, boron-11	3,090	3,090
Material selection	4,511	17,469
Superconducting materials	1,088	1,088
Containment considerations	1,217	1,217
Plasma-wall surface conditions	965	965
Selection of materials	9,688	9,688
Safety and the environment	33	17,903
Accident potential	4,157	4,157
Magnet quench	2,824	2,824
Effluents	881	881
Radioactive waste	5,622	5,622
Nuclear proliferation	3,023	3,023
Fuel reserves	1,363	1,363
Economics	22,128	22,128
Regulation	6,773	6,773
Geopolitics	12,672	12,672
Advantages	4,634	4,927
Helium production	293	293
Disadvantages	2,060	2,060
History	99	35,512
Early experiments	2,917	2,917
First tokamak	2,621	2,621
First inertial confinement experiments	2,063	2,063
1980s	1,831	1,831
1990s	1,776	1,776
2000s	2,992	2,992
2010s	11,125	11,125
2020s	10,088	10,088
Future development	2,255	2,255
Records	9,798	9,798
See also	303	303
References	1,501	1,501
Bibliography	2,635	2,635
Further reading	463	463
External links	654	654
Total	214,277	214,277

Unexplained Diagram Is Too Technical

The graph in the Triple product needs to be clarified so that nonspecialists can understand it. It was copy-pasted from some preprint article with no usable explanation. It is graphed in terms of Q and "trapping" neither of which are mentioned, let alone explained, anywhere in the article. The dots on the graph aren't mentioned or explained in the caption. Is this supposed to show how far the various experiments are from some theoretical target? Or what? Copy-pasting something from a journal article with a caption of unexplained ultra-technical jargon and undefined variables does not help anyone. 2601:441:5000:13E0:0:0:0:932F (talk) 02:22, 15 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]