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.

As covered previously, plasma stability is a problem with the popular approach of tokamak-based magnetic confinement fusion (MCF). Although this core problem has now been largely addressed ...

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 ...

New results published in Nuclear Fusion confirm General Fusion successfully created magnetized plasmas that achieved energy confinement times exceeding 10 milliseconds. The published energy ...

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 ...

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.