The SMART (Small Aspect Ratio Tokamak) reactor – an experimental fusion device designed, built and operated by the Plasma ...

China’s Hefei Institutes of Physical Science has claimed a new world record for maintaining a steady-state high-confinement ...

Yevgeny Raitses and Elena Belova were named PPPL’s 2024 Distinguished Research Fellows for their exceptional contributions to ...

Within its doughnut-shaped chamber, or torus, the plasma particles spiral continuously without touching the walls. The larger vacuum chamber volume, the easier it is to confine plasma ITER claims ...

Parker is a Ph.D. candidate in the Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences Department. He has researched the Io plasma torus at Jupiter with Dr. Fran Bagenal [1], FUV flares on accreting protostars with ...

These machines have a torus-shaped chamber in which plasma is confined inside a magnetic field and heated to extremely high temperatures. This allows hydrogen nuclei to fuse into helium ...

A visualization of high energy particles, in the form of plasma, flowing through a tokamak-type reactor. (Photo: Shutterstock) In our sun’s core, extreme temperatures and the immense pressure created ...

The plasma is confined by magnetic fields in a doughnut-like torus shape, but heavier ‘exhaust’ elements from the so-called scrape-off layer (SOL) hit the divertor plate. “Plasma generates ...

Tokamaks confine plasma – a hot, ionized gas – using magnetic fields arranged in a doughnut-like configuration called a torus. As the particles in the plasma become energized and heat up ...