Sentences with phrase «as magnetic fusion»
Importantly, this non-event should not bear any relation to the fate of other vital work centering on an entirely different approach known as magnetic fusion.
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After that I wanted to do something very practical so I switched to work on magnetic confinement fusion, as part of the ongoing effort to develop fusion reactors.
In research machines such as fusion reactors, scientists use strong magnetic fields to confine plasma, but those fields interfere with seeing what might happen during a natural dynamo.
In a recent paper published in EPJ H, Fritz Wagner from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Germany, gives a historical perspective outlining how our gradual understanding of improved confinement regimes for what are referred to as toroidal fusion plasmas — confined in a donut shape using strong magnetic fields — have developed since the 1980s.
But if we do away with solid vessels and use magnetic fields (such as in fusion reactors) instead, then higher temperatures can be reached.
The goal for magnetic fusion is to generate roughly 10 times as much energy as is needed to contain the plasma.
Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) seeks to create those conditions by taking a tiny capsule of fusion fuel (typically a mixture of the hydrogen isotopes deuterium and tritium) and crushing it at high speed using some form of «driver,» such as lasers, particle beams, or magnetic pulses.
The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and managed by Princeton University, is located at 100 Stellarator Road off Campus Drive on Princeton University's Forrestal Campus in Plainsboro, N.J. PPPL researchers collaborate with researchers around the globe in the field of plasma science, the study of ultra-hot, charged gases, to develop practical solutions for the creation of magnetic fusion energy as an energy source for the world.
The concept uses a laser to heat fusion fuel contained in a small cylinder as it is compressed by the huge magnetic field of Sandia's massive Z accelerator.
Originally proposed in a 2010 Sandia theoretical paper, the concept uses a laser to heat fusion fuel contained in a small cylinder (called a liner) as it is compressed by the huge magnetic field of Sandia's massive Z accelerator.
Heitzenroeder has contributed to the design and construction of many of the world's major magnetic fusion facilities during a storied 40 - year career at PPPL that includes more than 20 years as head of the Mechanical Engineering Division.