{"id":106774,"date":"2020-05-08T11:04:45","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T18:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/physicists-discover-new-trick-to-stabilize-fusion-reactors"},"modified":"2020-05-08T11:04:45","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T18:04:45","slug":"physicists-discover-new-trick-to-stabilize-fusion-reactors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/physicists-discover-new-trick-to-stabilize-fusion-reactors","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Discover New Trick to Stabilize Fusion Reactors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-discover-new-trick-to-stabilize-fusion-reactors.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also could do a magnonic fusion reactor.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<b>Magnetic Islands<\/b><\/p>\n<p>But there may be a way to force the plasma into doing what we want more predictably and efficiently, as detailed in <a href=\"https:\/\/aip.scitation.org\/doi\/10.1063\/5.0001881\">a new theoretical paper<\/a> published in the journal <em>Physics of Plasmas.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Princeton team found that shooting radio frequency waves that super-heat fusion reactions inside a reactor could potentially reduce the chance of \u201cmagnetic islands\u201d \u2014 bubble-like structures that can throw fusion reactions out of whack by triggering sudden releases of energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also could do a magnonic fusion reactor. Magnetic Islands But there may be a way to force the plasma into doing what we want more predictably and efficiently, as detailed in a new theoretical paper published in the journal Physics of Plasmas. The Princeton team found that shooting radio frequency waves that super-heat fusion reactions [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}