Fusion technologies are rapidly moving up the performance curve as world records tumble. The road to commercialisation is ...

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

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.

A tokamak is a particular type of nuclear fusion reactor that uses currents to drive plasma through the center of a large, hollow ring. Magnetic fields within this hot mess of charged particles ...

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 ...

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 ...

The published energy confinement time results were achieved on General Fusion’s PI3 plasma injector—the ... were achieved without requiring active magnetic stabilization or auxiliary heating.

In recent years, there has been a paradigm shift in plasma physics research. In the past, large magnetic fusion experiments have made considerable progress, with theory often being subordinate and ...

helical magnetic fields to confine the plasma, thereby enabling scientists to control it and create suitable conditions for fusion. This technology is already being used with success on the world ...

General Fusion announced on Tuesday ... with a bit of electricity to generate a magnetic field, which helps keep the plasma contained. The pistons then drive a liquid lithium wall inward on ...

Once completed, SPARC will use powerful magnetic fields to hold plasma in a shape that looks much like a doughnut. While SPARC will be an experimental fusion system, the hope is that one day ...