Using the plasma's pressure on the containing magnetic field to induce a current (rather than heating water in order to use steam to run a turbine, as is curren

Using the plasma's pressure on the containing magnetic field to induce a current (rather than heating water in order to use steam to run a turbine, as is currently what we do with fission) is pretty damn clever, and might lead to smaller reactors and lower costs - I really hope this works out. I'm curious though, what happens to the plasma before the next pulse - in the animations it neatly dissipates, but I doubt it's that simple. The big issue with other fusion reactor designs is how to make sure this incredibly hot plasma doesn't touch and melt any part of the reactor. Current designs try to "levitate" and contain the plasma with a magnetic field, but it's really, really difficult to successfully contain something as energetic and chaotic as plasma. I'm guessing part of the point of the pulses here is to answer the problem of "we can't contain it for long" with "we don't have to".