{"id":653375,"date":"2020-04-28T13:48:59","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T17:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=653375"},"modified":"2020-04-28T13:48:59","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T17:48:59","slug":"scientists-explore-the-power-of-radio-waves-to-help-control-fusion-reactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=653375","title":{"rendered":"Scientists explore the power of radio waves to help control fusion reactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A key challenge to capturing and controlling fusion energy on Earth is maintaining the stability of plasma\u2014the electrically charged gas that fuels fusion reactions\u2014and keeping it millions of degrees hot to launch and maintain fusion reactions. This challenge requires controlling magnetic islands, bubble-like structures that form in the plasma in doughnut-shaped tokamak fusion facilities. These islands can grow, cool the plasma and trigger disruptions\u2014the sudden release of energy stored in the plasma\u2014that can halt fusion reactions and seriously damage the fusion facilities that house them.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-04-scientists-explore-power-radio-fusion.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Scientists explore the power of radio waves to help control fusion reactions<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A key challenge to capturing and controlling fusion energy on Earth is maintaining the stability of plasma\u2014the electrically charged gas that fuels fusion reactions\u2014and keeping it millions of degrees hot&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653375","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=653375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653375\/revisions"}],"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=653375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=653375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=653375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}