{"id":231844,"date":"2026-02-22T05:08:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T11:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/spinning-plasma-solves-a-long-standing-fusion-reactor-mystery"},"modified":"2026-02-22T05:08:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T11:08:40","slug":"spinning-plasma-solves-a-long-standing-fusion-reactor-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/spinning-plasma-solves-a-long-standing-fusion-reactor-mystery","title":{"rendered":"Spinning Plasma Solves a Long-Standing Fusion Reactor Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spinning-plasma-solves-a-long-standing-fusion-reactor-mystery.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A persistent asymmetry in fusion exhaust has challenged researchers for years. New simulations show that plasma core rotation, working together with cross-field drifts, determines where particles land inside a tokamak. Tokamaks are often described as giant magnetic \u201cdoughnuts,\u201d built to keep an u<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A persistent asymmetry in fusion exhaust has challenged researchers for years. New simulations show that plasma core rotation, working together with cross-field drifts, determines where particles land inside a tokamak. Tokamaks are often described as giant magnetic \u201cdoughnuts,\u201d built to keep an u<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231844","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}