Sentences with phrase «on magnetic fusion»

To Prof. John Holdren: I am a graduate student of U.C. Berkeley doing thesis research on magnetic fusion energy (MFE) at the DIII D tokamak in San Diego, CA.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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

After decades of slow progress with doughnut - shaped reactors, magnetic fusion labs are gambling on a redesign.

It is an experimental fusion machine based on the «tokamak» concept — a toroidal (doughnut - shaped) magnetic configuration that is used to create and maintain the conditions for controlled fusion reactions.

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.

That much current passing down the walls of the cylinder creates a magnetic field that exerts an inward force on the liner's walls, instantly crushing it — and compressing and heating the fusion fuel.

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.

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.

Each of these spinning magnetic storms is the size of Europe, and together they may be pumping enough energy into the solar atmosphere to heat it to millions of degrees — a power that leads one scientist to suggest we could mimic these solar tornadoes on Earth in the quest for nuclear fusion power.

Heliophysics plays out on scales ranging from the fusion of subatomic particles taking place in the heart of the sun to the grand sweep of magnetic storms that can engulf entire planets.

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.

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

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.

«On the one hand, the U.S. is a major participant in ITER, the international tokamak project located in France that's studying magnetic fusion.»

Possible applications range from the dissipation of magnetic energy in fusion devices on Earth to the acceleration of high energy particles in solar explosions called solar flares (Animation 1 and Image 2).

Unlike inertial systems, magnetic systems have reached the temperature necessary for fusion, but only through external heating devices that themselves use so much energy that you get no net energy out while they are on.

While most characteristics of a system tend to vary in proportion to changes in dimensions, the effect of changes in the magnetic field on fusion reactions is much more extreme: The achievable fusion power increases according to the fourth power of the increase in the magnetic field.

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.

Further, the fact that conquering this complex problem in laser fusion has not been «on schedule» has nothing to say about progress in magnetic fusion — it has been and continues to be remarkable.