{"id":72098,"date":"2017-08-23T16:02:27","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T23:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/new-recipe-for-heating-nuclear-fusion-plasma-boosts-ion-energy-output-10-times"},"modified":"2017-08-24T01:52:08","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T08:52:08","slug":"new-recipe-for-heating-nuclear-fusion-plasma-boosts-ion-energy-output-10-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/new-recipe-for-heating-nuclear-fusion-plasma-boosts-ion-energy-output-10-times","title":{"rendered":"New Recipe For Heating Nuclear Fusion Plasma Boosts Ion Energy Output 10 Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-recipe-for-heating-nuclear-fusion-plasma-boosts-ion-energy-output-10-times.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Extracting useful amounts of energy from the merging of atoms is tricky business, not least thanks to the challenges of controlling squirming clouds of ultra-hot plasma.<\/p>\n<p>Our clean power fusion goals could be a step closer now researchers have tweaked their fusion recipe to add a new ion to the mix. This allows researchers to get a better grip on how high-energy charged particles move not just inside reactors on Earth, but potentially provide insights into how they behave in stars.<\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers at MIT have used data from experiments conducted on a type of fusion reactor called a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tokamak\">tokamak<\/a> to explore how adding a third ion to the more traditional two-ion plasma mix shakes things up.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/this-new-recipe-for-nuclear-fusion-could-point-the-way-to-more-efficient-power#.WZ4HE0RotNE.facebook\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/this-new-recipe-for-nuclear-fusi...E.facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extracting useful amounts of energy from the merging of atoms is tricky business, not least thanks to the challenges of controlling squirming clouds of ultra-hot plasma. Our clean power fusion goals could be a step closer now researchers have tweaked their fusion recipe to add a new ion to the mix. This allows researchers to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72098","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\/72098","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\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72102,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72098\/revisions\/72102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}