Fusion energy, the process of fusing light atomic nuclei to generate energy, has long been considered the key to a clean and ...

Therefore, hot plasma can be confined by strong magnetic fields. Inertial confinement fusion This approach is based ... It consists of a fully ionized or partially ionized gas, containing ions, ...

An atom with no electrons orbiting around the nucleus is said to be ionized and ... modelling and controlling plasma is extremely complex but researchers have made great strides over the past decades.

This article was originally published with the title “ Artificial Plasma Clouds in Space ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 219 No. 5 (November 1968), p. 80 doi:10.1038 ...

Tokamaks confine plasma – a hot, ionized gas – using magnetic fields arranged in ... focused on three areas for improvement: energy confinement; fast ion confinement and lower hybrid current ...

About 90 are in operation, most of them tokamaks or stellarators, which use forms of magnetic confinement to heat and compress plasma in an effort to achieve nuclear fusion. In addition to the ...