"Burning plasma" refers to a state where the fusion reactions in a plasma (a hot, electrically charged gas) produce more energy than is needed to sustain the reaction. It is essentially a self-sustaining and highly productive fusion process.
Sentences with «burning plasma»
Tuneup will begin in the year 2020, with the first try for burning plasma in 2026. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
The U.S. tried to proceed with a next - step burning plasma experiment in the 1980s, but was unable to obtain congressional funding. (scientificamerican.com)
The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) aims to produce 500 megawatts of power by burning a plasma of deuterium and tritium held in place by superconducting magnets in a doughnut - shaped vessel called a torus. (sciencemag.org)