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Nuclear fusion

Magnetic islands stabilize fusion plasma, simulations suggest

09 May 2024
Magnetic islands illustration
Islands in the stream Artistic representation of resonant magnetic perturbations in a plasma. Palm tree is not to scale. (Courtesy: Kyle Palmer/PPPL Communications Department)
By combining two different approaches to plasma stabilization, physicists in the US and Germany have

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