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Nuclear fusion reactor in South Korea runs at 100 million degrees C for a record-breaking 48 seconds
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Why not magnets
How do those work?
Nobody knows
There are fusion reactor designs (most hypothetical, but some physical) which use magnetic interactions to capture the energy as electricity. The issue is that it's orders of magnitude more complex to do, even if it increases efficiency.