Short version : they refrain from commenting on the feasibility of non-tokamak designs, but cite the importance of alternate approaches being published in peer-reviewed journals.
There’s a lot of know-how that could be used in this “collaborative environment”. One of the fields could be the plasma simulation software to test concepts. Another field of course is in the materials field. Finally we could have more insight of how they are solving problems common to DPF (Continuous loading/unloading fuel), advanced plasma management etc.
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