A leading concept for a nuclear fusion reactor is a machine called a tokamak, in which the plasma is confined to a doughnut-shaped region. In a tokamak, D-shaped electromagnets are arranged in a ring ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The WEST tokamak in France set a new record by maintaining plasma for 1,337 seconds, a 25% improvement over the previous record. This achievement is crucial for ...

The milestone was reached on February 12 at the Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA) WEST Tokamak reactor. Achieving the dream of commercial fusion power is the ...

The WEST tokamak just broke the record for retaining hot fusion plasma, holding on to it for an unprecedented 22 minutes. WEST and other tokamaks are paving the way for ITER which, upon completion ...

One set of designs involves the use of a tokamak — a donut-shaped vessel where the nuclei are confined, like in a cage, and made to fuse. Inside the vessel, a deuterium gas is exposed to about ...

Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) is developing a tokamak device called SPARC ... models plasma and neutral transport in the boundary region of fusion devices and has been used to design plasma ...

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 ...

Japan’s JT-60SA fusion reactor project announced first plasma in October of this year to denote the successful upgrades to what is now the world’s largest operational, superconducting tokamak ...

ANDOVER, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aras, a leader in product lifecycle management (PLM) and digital thread solutions, announced today that Tokamak Energy, a pioneering fusion energy company ...

Science reporter Holly Chik investigates Chinese-Thai collaboration in fundamental science and cutting-edge technology. As part of the Belt and Road Initiative, Beijing’s influence on Bangkok ...

As divertors are the region where the plasma comes closest to ... Whether ARC, another tokamak design, or perhaps a stellarator derived from the Wendelstein project will be the first to show ...