{"id":106899,"date":"2020-05-11T02:42:52","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T09:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/physicists-think-theyve-found-a-new-way-to-stabilise-and-control-fusion-reactors"},"modified":"2020-05-11T02:42:52","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T09:42:52","slug":"physicists-think-theyve-found-a-new-way-to-stabilise-and-control-fusion-reactors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/physicists-think-theyve-found-a-new-way-to-stabilise-and-control-fusion-reactors","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Think They\u2019ve Found a New Way to Stabilise And Control Fusion Reactors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-think-theyve-found-a-new-way-to-stabilise-and-control-fusion-reactors3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of research physicists at Princeton University <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/science\/a32389687\/radio-waves-stabilize-fusion-reactions\/\">may have found a new way<\/a> to control fusion reactions inside doughnut-shaped tokamak reactors \u2014 an incremental step towards making fusion energy, the \u2018holy grail of energy production\u2019, a reality.<\/p>\n<p>Many fusion reactors today use light elements in the form of plasma as fuel. The problem is that this elemental plasma is extremely hot \u2014 practically as hot as the Sun \u2014 and extremely unpredictable and difficult to control.<\/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 <a href=\"https:\/\/aip.scitation.org\/doi\/10.1063\/5.0001881\">new theoretical paper<\/a> published in the journal <em>Physics of Plasmas.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of research physicists at Princeton University may have found a new way to control fusion reactions inside doughnut-shaped tokamak reactors \u2014 an incremental step towards making fusion energy, the \u2018holy grail of energy production\u2019, a reality. Many fusion reactors today use light elements in the form of plasma as fuel. The problem is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106899","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\/106899","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}