The SMART tokamak - an experimental fusion device designed, built and operated by the Plasma Science and Fusion Technology ...

Last year, researchers at the University of Seville began to prepare the tokamak’s inner walls for a high pressure plasma by heating argon gas with microwaves. When those tests were successful, ...

Specialists at JSC NIIEFA and MISIS have developed a composite of tungsten and copper, using additive technologies, for the plasma-facing elements of the tokamak divertor of Russia's prototype TRT ...

The University of Seville's SMART tokamak has achieved a critical milestone by creating its first tokamak plasma, utilizing a ...

In a pioneering approach to achieve fusion energy, the SMART device has successfully generated its first tokamak plasma ... preventing severe damage to the tokamak wall. Besides offering high ...

Scientists use laser technology and robotics to study fusion fuel retention in the JET reactor to unlock the secrets of ...

The Globus-M2 spherical tokamak that Bakharev his team are working on may be an important first step towards this goal. Tokamaks confine plasma – a hot, ionized gas – using magnetic fields ...

remotevfx/iStock / Getty Images Plus It is within this plasma that atomic nuclei are forced to combine; with the heat energy released in the process harnessed by the walls of the tokamak.

The tokamak’s carbon-made walls had been replaced with ... yet this project only represented the first step in fusion energy's implementation. JET scientifically demonstrated that fusion energy ...

To initiate nuclear fusion reactions within a tokamak, high-temperature plasma must first be generated, a process known as "startup." The startup process requires a strong electric field ...

The system successfully passed its factory acceptance test recently on the first attempt. This system will soon be installed on the EAST Tokamak, where it will contribute to high-density and high ...