For decades, scientists have been working to develop reactors that can achieve fusion to meet the increasing need for clean and limitless energy.
The success of such experiments depends on multiple key factors, including optimized magnetic fields that could display enhanced fusion plasma confinement.
Introduced by researchers at Laboratorio Nacional de Fusión–CIEMAT, the new family of magnetic fields is claimed to be better suited for confining particles in fusion devices.
With the help of such magnetic field, the researchers highlight that the devices won’t require complex equipment configurations. The new development is claimed to be a key step for the realization of fusion reactors.
Published in the Physical Review Letters, the study presents a new family of optimized fields that display tokamak-like collisional energy transport while having transitioning particles. This result radically broadens the space of accessible reactor-relevant configurations.
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