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Nuclear Fusion Energy Reactor Breakthrough Set To Help Stabilize Plasma

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In a study, PPPL scientists have found that resistivity is an important property of plasma since it can cause instabilities known as edge-localized modes (ELMs), which are essentially small eruptions of plasma. If left unchecked, these eruptions could cause damage to fusion reactors which would mean they'd need to be taken offline more often for repairs.
 
In a study, PPPL scientists have found that resistivity is an important property of plasma since it can cause instabilities known as edge-localized modes (ELMs), which are essentially small eruptions of plasma. If left unchecked, these eruptions could cause damage to fusion reactors which would mean they'd need to be taken offline more often for repairs.
Good for spherical tokamaks but not for advanced ones like ITER where the aspect ratio is different.
Still it could lead to better predictive models so yay science, but this isn't ground breaking.
 
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