Identifying new sources of turbulence in spherical tokamaks Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Nov 30, 2015 - For fusion reactions to take place efficiently, the atomic nuclei that fuse together in plasma must be kept sufficiently hot. But turbulence in the plasma that flows in facilities called tokamaks can cause heat to leak from the core of the plasma to its outer edge, causing reactions to fizzle out. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPP ... more

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