Posted on 06/11/2022 10:38:43 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Nuclear fusion is a widely studied process through which atomic nuclei of a low atomic number fuse together to form a heavier nucleus, while releasing a large amount of energy. Nuclear fusion reactions can be produced using a method known as inertial confinement fusion, which entails the use of powerful lasers to implode a fuel capsule and produce plasma.
Researchers...recently showed what happens to this implosion when one applies a strong magnetic field to the fuel capsule used for inertial confinement fusion. Their paper, published in Physical Review Letters, demonstrates that strong magnetic fields flatten the shape of inertial fusion implosions.
"In inertial confinement fusion, a millimeter-size spherical capsule is imploded using high-power lasers for nuclear fusion...Applying a magnetic field to the implosions can strap the charged plasma particles to the B-field and improve their chances of fusion. However, since magnetic field can restrict plasma particle motion only in the direction across the field lines and not in the direction along the applied field lines, this can introduce differences between the two directions that affect the implosion shape."
Over the past decade, several physicists investigated the possible effects of magnetizing fusion implosions. Most of their studies, however, were numerical in nature and did not test hypotheses in an experimental setting.
Bose and his colleagues thus decided to conduct a series of tests to empirically determine what happens to the shape of inertial fusion implosions under a strong magnetization. Their experiments were specifically designed to explore the properties of strongly magnetized plasmas, by producing unique plasma conditions. In these conditions, the plasma ions and electrons are both magnetized.
(Excerpt) Read more at phys.org ...
Hopefully there is no Soros-funded DA around, or the nuclei will be out on bail before the laser hits its mark.
Cars and planes and just about everything will be nuclear, Folks.
This was already accomplished 50 years ago. You know who has it coz they ain’t Talkin
The Strange History
of Fusion and
the Science of
Wishful Thinking
by Charles Seife
I have a pair of stereo speakers that I swear does this same thing when you turn it nice and loud.
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