LONDON, UK – Scientists have long been looking for a way to develop nuclear fusion, which could offer a limitless source of clean power as the world begins to phase out fossil fuels. Fusion, which is the energy that powers the sun and other stars, combines light elements in the form of hot, charged particles known as plasma to generate massive amounts of energy.
Now, researchers have come one step closer to harnessing this inexhaustible power, as experts at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have made new breakthroughs that could make it easier to successfully create and sustain nuclear fusion.
The team discovered that by updating a mathematical model to include a physical property known as resistivity, they could develop an improved design of a tokamak, which doughnut-shaped fusion facility where charged particles are used to try and create nuclear fusion.
PPPL physicist Nathaniel Ferraro, one of the collaborating researchers said: “Resistivity is the property of any substance that inhibits the flow of electricity.
“It’s kind of like the viscosity of a fluid, which inhibits things moving through it.
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