Magnetic confinement fusion represents a promising avenue for realising sustainable and high‐yield energy production. In these systems, plasma – a highly ionised state of matter – is contained within ...

A a view from inside the OMEGA target chamber during a direct-drive inertial fusion experiment at the University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics. Scientists fired 28 kilojoules of laser ...

However, in conventional tokamak operation, plasma density has long been restricted by an empirical upper limit. Exceeding this limit often leads to instabilities that disrupt plasma confinement and ...

Researchers working on China's fully superconducting Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) have experimentally accessed a theorized "density-free regime" for fusion plasmas, achieving ...