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Magnetic islands stabilize a fusion plasma, simulations suggest

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Physicists in the US and Germany have developed a new technique for suppressing instabilities in tokamak fusion reactors.

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Sam Jarman (2024) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e6229eb6db6435875b50d9 https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-7058/37/07/05

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