Researchers from New York University have designed a configuration of coils for a stellarator, a type of device that controls fusion reactions. The shape, number and position of the coils are ...

Predator and prey: The upper graph shows the predator-prey relationship between the magnetic island and the bootstrap current. The bottom diagrams show the situation in the Large Helical Device when ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have made a breakthrough in enhancing the performance of ...

You may not have heard of a Stellarator before, but if all goes well later this month in a small university town in the far northeast of Germany, you will. That’s because the Wendelstein 7-X is ...

In a large complex located at Greifswald in the north-east corner of Germany, sits a new and unusual nuclear fusion reactor awaiting a few final tests before being powered-up for the very first time.

The turbulence code GENE (Gyrokinetic Electromagnetic Numerical Experiment), has proven to be very useful for the theoretical description of turbulence in the plasma of tokamak-type fusion devices.

In the past experimentation round Wendelstein 7-X achieved higher temperatures and densities of the plasma, longer pulses and the stellarator record for the fusion product. Moreover, first ...