Railguns Stabiliize ITER Nuclear Fusion Plasma Three Times Faster than Gas Guns - NextBigFuture.com

Railguns Stabiliize ITER Nuclear Fusion Plasma Three Times Faster than Gas Guns - NextBigFuture.com: One of the problems preventing the Multi-billion dollar ITER nuclear fusion project from scaling to provide commercial energy are disruptions of the plasma. Disruptions are sudden events that can halt fusion reactions and damage the tokamaks. Princeton has developed an electromagnetic particle injector (EPI) which is a type of railgun that fires a high-velocity projectile from a pair of electrified rails into a plasma on the verge of disruption. The projectile, called a “sabot,” releases a payload of material into the center of the plasma that radiates, or spreads out, the energy stored in the plasma, reducing its impact on