Stabilizing fusion plasmas

“Sawtooth swings—up-and-down ripples found in everything from stock prices on Wall Street to ocean waves—occur periodically in the temperature and density of the plasma that fuels fusion reactions in doughnut-shaped facilities called tokamaks. These swings can sometimes combine with other instabilities in the plasma to produce a perfect storm that halts the reactions. However, some plasmas are free of sawtooth gyrations thanks to a mechanism that has long puzzled physicists.”

For the large scale fusion plasmas, it seems like a real challenge!

No more zigzags: Scientists uncover mechanism that stabilizes fusion plasmas

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