Researchers find new ways to steer fusion with lasers and magnetic fields
Imagine trying to summon the sun to your research laboratory.
Plasma Physics
Aug 11, 2022
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Superconductors face the future
Futuristic ideas for the use of superconductors, materials that allow electric current to flow without resistance, are myriad: long-distance, low-voltage electric grids with no transmission loss; fast, magnetically levitated ...
Superconductivity
Sep 10, 2010
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Hundred million degree fluid key to fusion
Scientists developing fusion energy experiments have solved a puzzle of why their million-degree heating beams sometimes fail, and instead destabilise the fusion experiments before energy is generated.
Plasma Physics
Mar 7, 2016
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Artificial intelligence speeds forecasts to control fusion experiments
Machine learning, a technique used in the artificial intelligence (AI) software behind self-driving cars and digital assistants, now enables scientists to address key challenges to harvesting on Earth the fusion energy that ...
Plasma Physics
Jun 24, 2021
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World's most powerful X-ray laser creates two-million-degree matter
Researchers working at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have used the world's most powerful X-ray laser to create and probe a two-million-degree piece of matter in a controlled way for the first time. This feat, reported ...
General Physics
Jan 25, 2012
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Record neutron numbers at Sandia Labs' Z machine fusion experiments
A relatively new method to control nuclear fusion that combines a massive jolt of electricity with strong magnetic fields and a powerful laser beam has achieved its own record output of neutrons—a key standard by which ...
General Physics
Oct 27, 2020
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EPFL and DeepMind use AI to control plasmas for nuclear fusion
EPFL's Swiss Plasma Center (SPC) has decades of experience in plasma physics and plasma control methods. DeepMind is a scientific discovery company acquired by Google in 2014 that's committed to "solving intelligence to advance ...
Plasma Physics
Feb 16, 2022
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Extreme plasma theories put to the test
The first controlled studies of extremely hot, dense matter have overthrown the widely accepted 50-year old model used to explain how ions influence each other's behavior in a dense plasma. The results should benefit a wide ...
Plasma Physics
Aug 6, 2012
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A new chemical element in the periodic table
The element 112, discovered at the Centre for Heavy Ion Research (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung) in Darmstadt, has been officially recognized as a new element by the International Union of Pure and Applied ...
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Jun 10, 2009
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Machine learning hunts for the right mix of hydrogen isotopes for future nuclear fusion power plants
The process that powers the stars—nuclear fusion—is proposed as a future power source for humanity and could provide clean and renewable energy free of the radioactive waste associated with current nuclear fission plants.
Plasma Physics
Sep 1, 2023
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