But there are still huge technological challenges to overcome before ... Heating a plasma for fusion research requires megawatts of power. One approach that research tokamaks use to achieve the ...

Plasma physics is the study of a state of matter comprising charged particles. Plasmas are usually created by heating a gas until the electrons become detached from their parent atom or molecule ...

Joseph Barreto donates plasma twice a week at the Grifols Biomat USA Plasma Center. He had no idea this Tuesday afternoon was going to be different than any other time. He had just finished ...

Purple-tinged waves of white plasma rhythmically rose and vanished within a metal-screened column, igniting in time with metronomic clicks coming from elsewhere in the chemistry kit. This isn’t ...

A cornerstone of the US fusion research program, the DIII-D National Fusion Facility, has accomplished a major achievement. The nuclear fusion facility has completed its 200,000th experimental cycle.

Developed in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics specifically for the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator 1, Thales’s TH1507U gyrotron has achieved a significant milestone by ...

However, to achieve fusion, scientists need to first create and confine a superheated gas, called plasma, within a strong magnetic field. This plasma, which is made up of deuterium and tritium ...