(Tokamak schematic courtesy Max Planck Institute.) Stellarators get around this by twisting the path of the plasma. The original stellarator design, invented by all-around physics-badass [Lyman ...
Chinese scientists sustain plasma at 100 million degrees C for 1,066 seconds in EAST, advancing nuclear fusion research.
There are two leading designs of experimental fusion reactor, tokamak and stellarator, which have different configurations. Vladimir Rozhansky, head of the Laboratory of Controlled Thermonuclear ...
The pursuit of energy from fusion technology has taken another step forward, with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) ...
Spong explained how thermonuclear fusion works and how a tokamak and stellarator differ. They are the two leading magnetic confinement concepts for fusion devices. The stellarator (short for ...
Hot stuff The first plasma at the SMall Aspect Ratio Tokamak. (Courtesy: University of Seville) A novel fusion device based at the University of Seville in Spain has achieved its first plasma. The ...
This is one area where the stellarator design may have a leg up on the tokamak design. Interior of the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator during maintenance. Compared to the simple, round tokamak design ...
The Globus-M2 spherical tokamak that Bakharev his team are working on may be an important first step towards this goal. Tokamaks confine plasma – a hot, ionized gas – using magnetic fields ...
KEARNY, N.J., Jan. 29, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Thea Energy, Inc., a fusion technology company advancing the stellarator for the commercialization of a carbon-free and abundant source of energy ...