Understanding, modelling and controlling plasma is extremely complex but researchers have made great strides over the past decades. Scientists use magnetic confinement devices to manipulate plasmas.

Magnetic confinement fusion Magnetic confinement fusion is based on the fact that ions and electrons cannot easily travel across a magnetic field. Therefore, hot plasma can be confined by strong ...

One of those reactors is China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), located in Heifei, China, which has a habit of breaking fusion ... magnetic confinement—to contain plasma ...

Novatron’s unique magnetic mirror design ... professor in Fusion Plasma Physics at KTH. “This unique collaboration will help drive the ongoing development of the novel fusion technology ...

Stellarators, on the other hand, can operate continuously without a current drive ... plasma, which are essential for ...

Plasma physics is the study of charged particles and fluids interacting with self-consistent electric and magnetic fields. It is a basic research discipline that has many different areas of ...

The pursuit of nuclear fusion as a clean, sustainable energy source represents one of the most challenging scientific and engineering goals of our time. Fusion promises nearly limitless energy without ...

In a pioneering approach to achieve fusion energy, the SMART device has successfully generated its first tokamak plasma. This step brings the international fusion community closer to achieving ...

The need for an intense source of coherent, millimetre-wavelength radiation to heat a fusion plasma ... the confining magnetic field that compromise its ability to confine a plasma, which degrades ...

Hot stuff The first plasma at the SMall Aspect Ratio Tokamak. (Courtesy: University of Seville) A novel fusion device based at the University of Seville in Spain has achieved its first plasma. The ...

In a pioneering approach to achieve fusion energy, the SMART device has successfully generated its first tokamak plasma ... opportunity to track the sun's magnetic field as it traveled into ...