The ground-state energy of the helium atom in a plasma is calculated by the variational method with the static screened Coulomb potential as the interparticle potential. This is used to calculate the ionization energy of the helium atom as a function of the screening parameter. The critical value of the screening parameter at which the ionization energy becomes zero is also estimated.
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