{"id":280052,"date":"2017-02-27T11:30:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T15:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=0d04a70e2de833263c92b5b54a6c460b"},"modified":"2017-02-27T11:30:30","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T15:30:30","slug":"how-donut-shaped-fusion-plasmas-managed-to-decrease-adverse-turbulence-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=280052","title":{"rendered":"How donut-shaped fusion plasmas managed to decrease adverse turbulence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fusion research has been dominated by the search for a suitable way of ensuring confinement as part of the research into using fusion to generate energy. In a recent paper published in EPJ H, Fritz Wagner from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Germany, gives a historical perspective outlining how our gradual understanding of improved confinement regimes for what are referred to as toroidal fusion plasmas\u2014confined in a donut shape using strong magnetic fields\u2014 have developed since the 1980s. He explains the extent to which physicists&#8217; understanding of the mechanisms governing turbulent transport in such high-temperature plasmas has been critical in improving the advances towards harvesting fusion energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fusion research has been dominated by the search for a suitable way of ensuring confinement as part of the research into using fusion to generate energy. In a recent paper published in EPJ H, Fritz Wagner from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Germany, gives a historical perspective outlining how our gradual understanding of improved confinement regimes for what are referred to as toroidal fusion plasmas&mdash;confined in a donut shape using strong magnetic fields&mdash; have developed since the 1980s. He explains the extent to which physicists&#8217; understanding of the mechanisms governing turbulent transport in such high-temperature plasmas has been critical in improving the advances towards harvesting fusion energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=280052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280053,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280052\/revisions\/280053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}