Through its efforts to build and
operate magnetic fusion devices, PPPL has gained extensive capabilities in a host of disciplines including advanced computational simulations, vacuum technology, mechanics, materials science, electronics, computer technology, and high - voltage power systems.
Not exact matches
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.
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.