{"id":361946,"date":"2017-08-21T07:54:11","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T11:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=77de29dc043f24dda6e5bdfb7c52809b"},"modified":"2017-08-21T07:54:11","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T11:54:11","slug":"avoiding-disruptions-that-halt-fusion-reactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=361946","title":{"rendered":"Avoiding disruptions  that halt fusion reactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inside a fusion experiment, where scientists study the reactions at the heart of our sun, disruptions\u2014large-scale instabilities of the plasma\u2014cause rapid and complete loss of magnetic confinement. Models of fusion plasmas now combine advanced numerical methods with high-performance computing capabilities. The result? Scientists can explore the causes and dynamics of disruptions in unprecedented detail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside a fusion experiment, where scientists study the reactions at the heart of our sun, disruptions&mdash;large-scale instabilities of the plasma&mdash;cause rapid and complete loss of magnetic confinement. Models of fusion plasmas now combine advanced numerical methods with high-performance computing capabilities. The result? Scientists can explore the causes and dynamics of disruptions in unprecedented detail.<\/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-361946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361946","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=361946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361947,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361946\/revisions\/361947"}],"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=361946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=361946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=361946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}