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Chinese nuclear fusion reactor pushes plasma past crucial limit: what happens next

China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) is a nuclear-fusion research reactor in Hefei. Researchers hope ...

China’s Fusion Reactor Reached an ‘Unbreakable’ Limit—and Broke Right Through It

By exceeding a long-standing density barrier, China’s EAST fusion reactor proved that tokamaks can pack way more atoms into ...
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Chinese Fusion Reactor Achieves Plasma Density Previously Thought to Be Impossible

China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak has just shattered a longstanding limit in nuclear plasma density.

Researchers build plasma accelerator that boosts electron energy and brightness at the same time

Researchers from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the University of California, Los ...

Plasma “Fireballs” at CERN May Explain the Universe’s Missing Light

Using the Super Proton Synchrotron, the team created beams of electron-positron pairs and passed them through a meter-long region of plasma. This setup served as a scaled laboratory version of a ...

Some say selling plasma is exploitative — others say it's a life-saving economy booster

With rising rent, utilities and the cost of groceries, a growing number of people are selling their blood plasma to make extra money. It's a multi-billion dollar industry.