Sunday, December 18, 2016

Many Ways to Hot Fusion

Me, "Many ways, it seems, to the process of Hot Fusion."

From article, "Physicists Confirm Germany's Nuclear Fusion Machine is Most Advanced in World

(The W7-X is the most recent version of the stellarator concept, which Lyman Spitzer, a Princeton University astrophysicist and founder of PPPL, originated during the 1950s. Stellarators mostly gave way to tokamaks a decade later, since the doughnut-shaped facilities are simpler to design and build and generally confine plasma better. But recent advances in plasma theory and computational power have led to renewed interest in stellarators.
Such advances caused the authors to wonder if devices like the W7-X can provide an answer to the question of whether stellarators are the right concept for fusion energy. Years of plasma physics research will be needed to find out, they conclude, and "that task has just started.")

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