Work by Elizabeth Paul '15, a postdoctoral fellow at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, promises to help unlock the potential of devices known as "twisty stellarators."
Researchers have accomplished an extraordinary breakthrough in the conceptual design of twisty stellarators, experimental magnetic facilities that could replicate on Earth the fusion energy that fuels the sun and stars.
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Magnetic-field configurations that improve confinement of fusion plasmas in stellarators can be achieved more precisely than previously thought, according to a numerical study.