Using a newly developed adaptive optics system called Cona, scientists peered through Earth's turbulent air to reveal the sun ...

“In the world’s largest stellarator facility, high-energy helium-3 ions were generated for the first time using ion cyclotron ...

A hot plasma in tokamak is confined in a toroidal ... released on nuclear fusion reactions of light atomic species (e.g. hydrogen) into electricity, is seen as a promising and almost unlimited ...

For fusion to occur, hydrogen atoms are placed under high ... fuel to temperatures in excess of 150 million°C and forming a hot plasma, a gaseous soup of subatomic particles.

Maintaining a hot edge is key to their unique approach ... the dynamics of the charge exchange and allowed the plasma to retain hydrogen ions added by the neutral beam without booting out other ...

For one, the incredibly hot hydrogen plasma inside the reactor needs to be efficiently contained using magnets. "The main challenge for us at this stage is to keep pushing along the path of ...

Researchers have made a leap forward in the pursuit of clean, endless energy. A team at General Atomics, a U.S. Department of ...

For a fusion reaction to work, the hydrogen atoms being used as fuel need to get hot enough that the electrons break away from the nucleus. This creates plasma—an energetic slurry of positive ions and ...

Instead of gravity, the most common approach uses strong superconducting magnets operating at ultracold temperatures to confine the intensely hot hydrogen plasma. The engineering and materials ...

This serves as a combustion chamber. Hot hydrogen plasma is fed into it. The chamber is then compressed using mechanical pistons. The compression compresses the plasma and heats it to around 100 ...

Then they applied a powerful electric current that melted the ore and created a hydrogen plasma containing a soup of atoms, ions, and electrons. The plasma reduced the ore’s nickel and iron ions ...