{"id":197761,"date":"2024-10-16T01:24:24","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T06:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/in-a-fusion-device-plasma-a-steep-ion-temperature-gradient-slows-the-growth-of-magnetic-islands"},"modified":"2024-10-16T01:24:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T06:24:24","slug":"in-a-fusion-device-plasma-a-steep-ion-temperature-gradient-slows-the-growth-of-magnetic-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/in-a-fusion-device-plasma-a-steep-ion-temperature-gradient-slows-the-growth-of-magnetic-islands","title":{"rendered":"In a fusion device plasma, a steep ion temperature gradient slows the growth of magnetic islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/in-a-fusion-device-plasma-a-steep-ion-temperature-gradient-slows-the-growth-of-magnetic-islands3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Future fusion power plants will require good plasma confinement to sustain reactions and generate energy. One way to contain plasma for fusion reactions is to use a tokamak, a device that applies magnetic fields to \u201cbottle\u201d plasma. However, magnetic islands, a type of instability in the plasma, can destroy the confining magnetic field if they grow large enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Future fusion power plants will require good plasma confinement to sustain reactions and generate energy. One way to contain plasma for fusion reactions is to use a tokamak, a device that applies magnetic fields to \u201cbottle\u201d plasma. However, magnetic islands, a type of instability in the plasma, can destroy the confining magnetic field if they [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197761","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}