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Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Physicists Crack Fusion Mystery

Physicists Crack Fusion Mystery

A new theory might help researchers double the power of fusion reactors.
One reason it's taking decades to develop fusion reactors that can generate electricity is that physicists don't completely understand what's going on in the high-temperature plasma inside a reactor. Under certain conditions, the plasma—which is where fusion reactions take place—disappears in under a millisecond.

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