March 2020

Nuclear Fusion 70 - Permanent Magnets May Be A Gamechanger For Stellarator Fusion Reactors

    I have been writing about nuclear fusion lately. A great deal of current research is being conducted with tokamaks which are donut shaped cavities surrounded by superconducting electromagnets to heat, compress, and confine a hydrogen plasma. A stellarator was an early design concept in which the cavity was twisted from the tokamak donut configuration to more of a figure eight.

Nuclear Fusion 69 - Breakthrough In Hydrogen Injection For Fusion Reactors - Part 2 of 2 Parts

Part 2 of 2 Parts (Please read Part 1 first)
    The phys.org article says, “The experiments revealed a significantly higher pressure of plasma—a key to fusion reactions—using hydrogen ice compared to gas injection when the rate of fueling is roughly evenly matched between the two methods.”

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