Over the past few years, the facility has passed some key milestones, including ignition of fusion and creating what's termed a burning plasma. Now, researchers have analyzed the properties of the ...

East is a magnetic confinement reactor, or tokamak, designed to keep the plasma continuously burning for prolonged periods. Reactors like this have never achieved ignition, which is the point at ...

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Researchers recently took an important step towards this goal with the achievement of a self-heating “burning plasma,” and now a closer inspection of that plasma has revealed strange ...

and control of plasma burning conditions. More information: M. Nishiura et al, Core density profile control by energetic ion anisotropy in LHD, Physics of Plasmas (2024). DOI: 10.1063/5.0201440 ...

Magnetic confinement reactors, known as tokamaks, aim to keep the plasma continuously burning for prolonged periods of time (ITER's goal is to do this for up to 400 seconds). But, despite edging ...

We will then further develop our research to contribute to higher performance of fusion reactor plasmas, downsizing of fusion reactors, improvement of energy output, and control of plasma burning ...

At ITER, the field confining the burning plasma will be 280,000 times as strong as the one around Earth.