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While birds chirp, plasma shouldn’t: New insight could advance fusion energy – techtoday19
PPPL physicist Roscoe White and colleagues have furthered understanding of a barrier that can prevent doughnut-shaped fusion facilities known as tokamaks from operating at high efficiency by causing vital heat to be lost from them. Credit: Elle Starkman / PPP…
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have furthered understanding of a barrier that can prevent doughnut-shaped fusion facilities known as tokamaks from operating at high efficiency by causing vital heat to be lost from them.
Led by PPPL physicist Roscoe White, the research team used computers to simulate a type of plasma movement that can bump highly energetic particles from the core to the edge, a phenomenon that could occur in ITER, t…
