abstract:The Wendelstein is a high mountain in the Bavarian Alps in South Germany. It belongs to the so-called Mangfall Mountains, the eastern part of the Bavarian Pre-Alps.
The Wendelstein 7-AS, a tiddler with a fuel capacity of but a single cubic metre, was built by the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics at Garching, Germany, and operated from 1988 to 2002.
As a result, the 7-AS is being followed by a larger machine, the Wendelstein 7-X, which is being built (see photograph on previous page) by the Max Planck Institute in Greifswald and has a capacity of 30 cubic metres.