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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Among these is the Io Plasma Torus, which I model in my research by balancing the forces on a charged particle. Click the image below for the video.

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 ...