Explore: Plasma Confinement Devices

for achieving stable plasma confinement. Plasma Confinement Optimization: Current RFP devices achieve lower plasma confinement times compared to tokamaks

processes require fuel, in a state of plasma, and a confined environment with sufficient temperature, pressure, and confinement time. The combination of these

the form of a plasma. Magnetic confinement is one of two major branches of controlled fusion research, along with inertial confinement fusion. Fusion

(MFE) approach, confinement times are on the order of one second. However, plasmas can be sustained for minutes. In this case the confinement time represents

Inertial electrostatic confinement, or IEC, is a class of fusion power devices that use electric fields to confine the plasma rather than the more common

toroidal confinement devices, and is foreseen to be the standard operational scenario of many future reactors, such as ITER. Plasma confinement degrades

of kilometers per second. Because of this, these devices have applications in magnetic confinement fusion (MCF), magneto-inertial fusion (MIF), high

magnets to confine plasma in the shape of an axially symmetrical torus. The tokamak is one of several types of magnetic confinement solenoids being developed

calculations of electron confinement times in Polywell(TM) devices using a steady-state particle-in-cell method" (PDF). APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting

magnetic confinement fusion devices and places certain operational limits. The beta limit, for example, sets the maximum achievable plasma beta in tokamaks