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New AI enhances the view inside fusion energy systems
Imagine watching a favorite movie when suddenly the sound stops. The data representing the audio is missing. All that's left are images. What if artificial intelligence (AI) could analyze each frame of the video and provide ...
Plasma Physics
Oct 1, 2025
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Lightning strikes 12 times per minute on fusion engineering test platform
Zap Energy has advanced its Century fusion engineering test platform to operate for more than one hundred plasma shots at 0.2 Hz, or one shot every five seconds, with the resulting heat captured by surfaces coated with circulating ...
Plasma Physics
Sep 30, 2025
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3D particle-in-cell simulations demonstrate first true steady state in turbulent plasma
Plasma is a state of matter that emerges when a gas is heated to sufficiently high temperatures, prompting some electrons to become free from atoms. This state of matter has been the focus of many astrophysical studies, as ...
Shape-shifting collisions offer new tool for studying early matter produced in Big Bang's aftermath
This summer, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) took a breath of fresh air. Normally filled with beams of protons, the 27-km ring was reconfigured to enable its first oxygen–oxygen and neon–neon collisions. First results ...
General Physics
Sep 18, 2025
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Single-shot laser technique captures plasma evolution at 100 billion frames per second
Plasma, ionized gas and the fourth state of matter, makes up over 99% of the ordinary matter in the universe. Understanding its properties is critical for developing fusion energy sources, modeling astrophysical objects like ...
Optics & Photonics
Sep 17, 2025
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New technique advances compact particle accelerator development
An international collaboration has developed a new diagnostic technique for measuring ultra-short particle beams at STFC's Central Laser Facility. This collaboration is led by the University of Michigan and Queen's University ...
Plasma Physics
Sep 15, 2025
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Key diagnostic system for experimental fusion reactor nears completion
In the universe, thermonuclear fusion is a common reaction: it is the source of energy for stars. On Earth, producing energy using this process is difficult due to problems with controlling the plasma emitting significant ...
Plasma Physics
Sep 11, 2025
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Tests on superconducting materials for world's largest fusion energy project show reliable measurement protocol
Durham University scientists have completed one of the largest quality verification programs ever carried out on superconducting materials, helping to ensure the success of the world's biggest fusion energy experiment ITER.
Superconductivity
Sep 11, 2025
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Measuring electron pulses for future compact ultra-bright X-ray sources
In a step toward making ultra-bright X-ray sources more widely available, an international collaboration led by the University of Michigan—with experiments at the U.K.'s Central Laser Facility—has mapped key aspects of ...
Optics & Photonics
Sep 10, 2025
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Super-X' design shows major advantages in handling hot exhaust of fusion energy
Temperatures of more than 10,000°C and a hail of charged particles from the fusion fuel (plasma): These are extreme conditions that the exhaust wall (divertor) of future fusion power plants will need to withstand. It makes ...
Plasma Physics
Sep 8, 2025
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Particle detector proves precision as it prepares to probe properties of quark-gluon plasma
A new and powerful particle detector just passed a critical test in its goal to decipher the ingredients of the early universe. The sPHENIX detector is the newest experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic ...
General Physics
Sep 3, 2025
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Bon voyage: General Atomics set to ship final piece of giant battery to nuclear fusion project in France
The final section of what scientists and engineers say will be the largest and most powerful pulsed, superconducting magnet in the world has been completed at the Poway campus of San Diego-based General Atomics.
Plasma Physics
Aug 29, 2025
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Plasma group publishes new framework to advance fusion energy research
Scientists pursuing magnetically-confined nuclear fusion as a clean energy source grapple with the "core-edge challenge," the need to integrate the core of the reactor, where plasma must be 10 times hotter than the sun, with ...
Plasma Physics
Aug 25, 2025
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Braided magnetic flux ropes found at both human and light year scales
Investigating solar corona structures has led Paul Bellan, Caltech professor of applied physics, and his former graduate student Yang Zhang (Ph.D. '24) to discover a new equilibrium state of the magnetic field and its associated ...
General Physics
Aug 25, 2025
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Weak points in diamond fusion fuel capsules identified
Scientists at the University of California San Diego have uncovered how diamond—the material used to encase fuel for fusion experiments at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory—can ...
Plasma Physics
Aug 20, 2025
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Room-temperature reactor uses electrochemistry to boost nuclear fusion rates
Using a small bench-top reactor, researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC) have demonstrated that electrochemically loading a solid metal target with deuterium fuel can boost nuclear fusion rates.
Plasma Physics
Aug 20, 2025
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New AI model advances fusion power research by predicting the success of experiments
Practical fusion power that can provide cheap, clean energy could be a step closer thanks to artificial intelligence. Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have developed a deep learning model that accurately ...
Theoretical study reveals failure of key quark-gluon plasma probe in low-energy region
According to theoretical predictions, within a millionth of a second after the Big Bang, nucleons had not yet formed, and matter existed as a hot, dense "soup" composed of freely moving quarks and gluons. This state of matter ...
General Physics
Aug 19, 2025
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Finding the shadows in a fusion system faster with AI
A public‑private partnership between Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory has led to a new artificial intelligence ...
Plasma Physics
Aug 13, 2025
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Study reveals mechanisms of rapidly driven plasma magnetic reconnection
A research team from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has shed new light on the magnetic reconnection process driven by rapidly expanding plasma, using magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) numerical simulations. ...
Plasma Physics
Aug 12, 2025
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