US scientist proposes ‘tungsten shotgun’ for fusion reactor stability
Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) are exploring a novel approach to mitigate a critical challenge in fusion energy development, i.e., the detrimental effects of runaway electrons. Electron runaway arises from plasma instabilities within fusion reactors. “Fusion reactors work by extracting tremendous sums of energy from the fusion of lighter atomic nuclei into a … Read more