Discover the challenges and breakthroughs in nuclear fusion, the clean energy source of the future. Learn about the science ...
Russian scientists claim to have developed a plasma electric rocket engine that could enable travel to Mars in just one to ...
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.
Stellarators, on the other hand, can operate continuously without a current drive ... plasma, which are essential for ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...