{"id":192379,"date":"2024-07-05T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T21:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/major-fusion-milestone-princeton-scientists-discover-game-changer-in-reactor-design"},"modified":"2024-07-05T16:03:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T21:03:00","slug":"major-fusion-milestone-princeton-scientists-discover-game-changer-in-reactor-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/major-fusion-milestone-princeton-scientists-discover-game-changer-in-reactor-design","title":{"rendered":"Major Fusion Milestone: Princeton Scientists Discover Game-Changer in Reactor Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/major-fusion-milestone-princeton-scientists-discover-game-changer-in-reactor-design2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>New research indicates that plasma fusion heat spreads more evenly in tokamak reactors, suggesting a reduced risk of damage to critical components, thereby improving reactor longevity and efficiency.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to researchers from the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/doe\/\">U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/princeton-plasma-physics-laboratory\/\">Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/oak-ridge-national-laboratory\/\">Oak Ridge National Laboratory<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/iter\/\">ITER Organization (ITER)<\/a>, the intense exhaust heat produced by fusing plasma in a commercial-scale reactor might not be as damaging to the reactor\u2019s interior as previously believed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis discovery fundamentally changes how we think about the way heat and particles travel between two critically important regions at the edge of a plasma during fusion,\u201d said PPPL Managing Principal Research Physicist Choongseok Chang, who led the team of researchers behind the discovery. A new paper detailing their work was recently published in the journal <em><i>Nuclear Fusion<\/i><\/em>, following <a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.1088\/1741-4326\/aa7efb\">previous<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.aip.org\/aip\/pop\/article\/28\/2\/022501\/124679\/Constructing-a-new-predictive-scaling-formula-for\">publications<\/a> on the subject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research indicates that plasma fusion heat spreads more evenly in tokamak reactors, suggesting a reduced risk of damage to critical components, thereby improving reactor longevity and efficiency. According to researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the ITER Organization (ITER), the intense exhaust [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192379","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}