QUADCOIL is a groundbreaking computer code that simplifies the design of stellarator magnets, ensuring plasma shapes remain ...

Perhaps Liu’s return to China signaled his belief that his native country was about to take the lead in the world fusion race. China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) is a nuclear ...

The Stellaris design described in Fusion Engineering and Design provides a maximum of 2.7 GW of fusion energy, resulting in ...

Scientists at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have unveiled a groundbreaking computer code, QUADCOIL, that ...

Like engineers who design high-performance Formula One race cars, scientists want to create high-performance plasmas in ...

The startup is betting that by simplifying stellarators, it can make fusion power cheaper and easier to maintain.

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The method relies on the fact that orbiting objects generate detectable waves when they move through plasma striations, which are natural disturbances along Earth’s magnetic field lines.

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To do this, a stellarator needs a complex magnetic field: it is ring-shaped and twisted. To generate this, the magnetic coils must be irregularly shaped. The Wendelstein 7-X could only be realized ...