Sentences with phrase «magnetic fusion plasmas»

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The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor program in the south of France will use magnetic fusion and employ strong magnetic fields to hold and fuse hydrogen plasma.

On Earth, researchers create fusion in facilities like tokamaks, which control the hot plasma with magnetic fields.

The Interactive Plasma Physics Education Experience provides a detailed introduction to plasma physics and fusion research, including the «virtual tokamak» and the «virtual magnetic stability module.&Plasma Physics Education Experience provides a detailed introduction to plasma physics and fusion research, including the «virtual tokamak» and the «virtual magnetic stability module.&plasma physics and fusion research, including the «virtual tokamak» and the «virtual magnetic stability module.»

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.

The goal for magnetic fusion is to generate roughly 10 times as much energy as is needed to contain the plasma.

On the other hand, in magnetic field confinement fusion plasma intended for a fusion reactor, which research is being conducted at the National Institute for Fusion Science, development of high precision electron density measurements is becoming an important research topic.

Since the operating temperature for fusion is in the hundreds of millions degrees Celsius, hotter than any known material can withstand, engineers found they could contain a plasma — a neutral electrically conductive, high - energy state of matter — at these temperatures using magnetic fields.

Eventually, studying 3 - D knotted magnetic fields like those potentially present in ball lightning might help scientists devise better ways to control plasmas within future fusion reactors for generating power, the researchers suggest.

Most fusion research focuses on magnetic confinement, using powerful electromagnets to contain a thin plasma of hydrogen isotopes and heat it until the nuclei fuse.

For magnetic fusion energy to fuel future power plants, scientists must find ways to control the interactions that take place between the volatile edge of the plasma and the walls that surround it in fusion facilities.

ITER, which will be finished in 2019 or 2020, will attempt fusion by containing a plasma with enormous magnetic fields and heating it with particle beams and radio waves.

The breakthrough is in magnetic confinement fusion, in which hydrogen is heated until it is a plasma 10 times hotter than the centre of the sun, and held in place by strong magnetic fields until fusion reactions occur.

In fact, some of the more promising technologies involved with nuclear fusion research use magnetic fields to contain plasmas.

Aiming for the achievement of fusion energy, research on confining a high temperature, high density plasma in a magnetic field is being conducted around the world.

(A tokamak is a kind of magnetic donut that has proven to be a particularly stable way to confine the extremely hot plasma needed to achieve fusion.)

Inside ITER's enormous, doughnut - shaped reactor walls, magnetic fields, electric currents, microwaves, and particle beams will heat a deuterium - tritium plasma to fusion temperatures for about 20 minutes.

He was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2013, with the APS citing his «innovations in magnetic fusion issues» and «seminal contributions» to fields ranging from x-ray lasers to plasma - lithium interactions.

Researchers designed an effective algorithm for the National Spherical Torus Experiment - Upgrade, a magnetic fusion reactor at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.

When a current runs through the magnetic field lines, they snap shut and pinch off, a process called magnetic reconnection, essentially forming a magnetic «balloon» filled with the current needed to fuel fusion while also confining the plasma.

Magnetic fusion energy and the plasma physics that underlies it are the topics of ambitious new books by Hutch Neilson, head of the Advanced Projects Department at PPPL, and Amitava Bhattacharjee, head of the Theory Department at the Laboratory.

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The books describe where research on magnetic fusion energy comes from and where it is going, and provide a basic understanding of the physics of plasma, the fourth state of matter that makes up 99 percent of the visible universe.

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 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 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.

This approach to fusion differs from experiments on the NSTX - U, which confines low - density plasma in magnetic fields to produce fusion reactions.

Physicist Sam Lazerson of the US Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory has teamed with German scientists to confirm that the Wendelstein 7 - X fusion energy device called a stellarator in Greifswald, Germany, produces high - quality magnetic fields that are consistent with their complex design.

Dozens of PPPL scientists presented the results of their cutting - edge research into magnetic fusion and plasma science.

A main goal of tokamak research is to use magnetic plasma confinement to develop the means of operating high - pressure fusion plasmas near stability and controllability boundaries while avoiding the occurrence of transient events that can degrade performance or terminate the plasma discharge.

The cause, according to a theory advanced by PPPL physicist David Gates and colleagues at the Laboratory, lies in the tendency of bubble - like islands that form in the plasma that fuels fusion reactions to shed heat and grow exponentially — a runaway growth that disrupts the crucial current that completes the magnetic field that holds the plasma together.

PPPL physicists contributed to papers, talks and presentations ranging from astrophysical plasmas to magnetic fusion energy during the 58th annual meeting of the American Physical Society (APS) Division of Plasma Physics.

PPPL is the nation's leading center for the exploration of plasma science and magnetic fusion energy.

Stellarators are fusion devices that use twisting, potato chip - shaped magnetic coils to confine the plasma that fuels fusion reactions in a three - dimensional and steady - state magnetic field.

Stellarators are fusion facilities that confine plasma in twisty magnetic fields, compared with the symmetrical fields that tokamaks use.

Researchers at the five - day conference, which ends Nov. 20, will attend nine half - day sessions featuring nearly 1,000 talks on subjects ranging from space and astrophysical plasmas to the challenges of producing magnetic fusion energy.

Papers, posters and presentations ranged from fusion plasma discoveries applicable to ITER, to research on 3D magnetic fields and antimatter.

Plasma churns and pulls in different directions around the sun, and the enormous heat produced by the nuclear fusion at the core plays along these currents to create magnetic fields.

Many of the frontiers of fusion science exist at the extremes of the plasma state, a state of matter where gases are hot enough that electrons disassociate from atomic nuclei (ions), forming an ensemble of ions and electrons that can conduct electrical currents and be confined by electric and magnetic fields.

The upgraded machine doubles the heating power, magnetic field strength and plasma current relative to its predecessor, and increases the duration of fusion experiments — or «shots» — to up to five seconds.

The method contrasts with the research done at PPPL and other laboratories, which controls plasma with magnetic fields and heats it to fusion temperatures in doughnut - shaped devices called tokamaks.

A tokamak, the most advanced magnetic fusion concept, uses magnetic fields in a donut - shaped ring to confine, heat, and squeeze plasma until it ignites, and then holds the burning plasma in place.

The plasmas in NSTX are, like most fusion experiments, confined using magnetic fields and walls designed to withstand the heat from plasmas with temperatures that exceed 100 million degrees Centigrade.

This focus in magnetic fusion has driven the development of a new scientific field, plasma physics, with huge benefits for science in general — from understanding cosmic plasmas to employing these hot, ionized gases for computer chip manufacturing.