{"id":128598,"date":"2021-10-05T23:23:12","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T06:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/new-nuclear-fusion-reactor-design-may-be-a-breakthrough"},"modified":"2021-10-05T23:23:12","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T06:23:12","slug":"new-nuclear-fusion-reactor-design-may-be-a-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/new-nuclear-fusion-reactor-design-may-be-a-breakthrough","title":{"rendered":"New nuclear fusion reactor design may be a breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lyqt6u5_sHA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe twisted coils are the most expensive and complicated part of the stellarator and have to be manufactured to very great precision in a very complicated form,\u201d physicist Per Helander, head of the Stellarator Theory Division at Max Planck and lead author of the new paper, told Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory News.<\/p>\n<p>The new design offers a simpler approach by instead using permanent magnets, whose magnetic field is generated by the internal structure of the material itself. As described in an article published by <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-020-00745-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nature<\/a><\/em>, Zarnstorff realized that neodymium\u2013boron permanent magnets\u2014which behave like refrigerator magnets, only stronger\u2014had become powerful enough to potentially help control the plasma in stellarators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe twisted coils are the most expensive and complicated part of the stellarator and have to be manufactured to very great precision in a very complicated form,\u201d physicist Per Helander, head of the Stellarator Theory Division at Max Planck and lead author of the new paper, told Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory News. The new design [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128598","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=128598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}