Nuclear fusion, a process that physicists and engineers have been working on for decades, ... If instabilities in the plasma occur, it can touch the walls inside the reactor, ...

Managing Plasma Instabilities. ... ・Nuclear fusion is a promising source of clean and sustainable energy, but creating and maintaining the conditions for fusion is extremely challenging.

Scientists at a U.S. government plasma lab have discovered a missing component in nuclear fusion equations that could speed up development of a working reactor. Specifically, the discovery could ...

Plasma instabilities are a huge problem for nuclear fusion: extremely energetic particles hit the wall of the reactor, potentially destroying it. Now a new mode of operation for nuclear reactors ...

First tokamak plasma at the SMall Aspect Ratio Tokamak – SMART – recorded with a fast-framing camera in the visible spectral range. In a pioneering approach to achieve fusion energy, the SMART ...

At the heart of any fusion system is a burning plasma, an ultrahot — at least 100 million degrees — ionized gas of atoms fusing together. Over the past three decades, computational models of ...

“This research showed that negative triangularity plasmas are free of potentially damaging instabilities in the edge region of the plasma without sacrificing fusion performance,” the U.S ...

With their innovative design, tokamak reactors are leading the charge in fusion research, aiming to unlock the potential of ...

SMART (Small Aspect Ratio Tokamak), the world's only fusion reactor with 'negative triangularity' constructed at the University of Sevilla in Spain, produced its first plasma. This is an important ...

Plasma instabilities remain a significant obstacle to achieving sustainable fusion energy. These instabilities can cause energy losses, disrupt the reaction, or even damage reactor walls.