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Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Artificial intelligence helps accelerate progress toward efficient fusion reactions -- ScienceDaily

Artificial intelligence helps accelerate progress toward efficient fusion reactions -- ScienceDaily: Before scientists can effectively capture and deploy fusion energy, they must learn to predict major disruptions that can halt fusion reactions and damage the walls of doughnut-shaped fusion devices called tokamaks. Timely prediction of disruptions, the sudden loss of control of the hot, charged plasma that fuels the reactions, will be vital to triggering steps to avoid or mitigate such large-scale events. Today, researchers are employing artificial intelligence to improve predictive capability.

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