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  24 April 2024 | Open Access

  A high-density and high-confinement tokamak plasma regime for fusion energy

  A stable tokamak plasma has been demonstrated with a high plasma density and a high energy confinement quality, both of which are simultaneously important for fusion reactors.

  • S. Ding
  • , A. M. Garofalo
  •  & J. M. Hanson

• Article
  21 February 2024 | Open Access

  Avoiding fusion plasma tearing instability with deep reinforcement learning

  Artificial intelligence control is used to avoid the emergence of disruptive tearing instabilities in the magnetically confined fusion plasma in the DIII-D tokamak reactor.

  • Jaemin Seo
  • , SangKyeun Kim
  •  & Egemen Kolemen

• Article
  19 April 2023 | Open Access

  Ultrafiltration separation of Am(VI)-polyoxometalate from lanthanides

  A new strategy to separate radioactive americium from lanthanides based on complexation with polyoxometalates and ultrafiltration technique is highly efficient and rapid, does not involve any organic components and requires minimal energy input.

  • Hailong Zhang
  • , Ao Li
  •  & Shuao Wang

• Article | 07 September 2022

  A sustained high-temperature fusion plasma regime facilitated by fast ions

  A magnetic confinement regime established at the Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research device enables the generation of plasmas over 10⁸ kelvin for 20 seconds with the aid of fast ions without plasma edge instabilities or impurity accumulation.

  • H. Han
  • , S. J. Park
  •  & Y.-S. Na

• Article
  16 February 2022 | Open Access

  Magnetic control of tokamak plasmas through deep reinforcement learning

  A newly designed control architecture uses deep reinforcement learning to learn to command the coils of a tokamak, and successfully stabilizes a wide variety of fusion plasma configurations.

  • Jonas Degrave
  • , Federico Felici
  •  & Martin Riedmiller

• Article
  26 January 2022 | Open Access

  Burning plasma achieved in inertial fusion

  A burning plasma, a critical step towards self-sustaining fusion, is achieved at the US National Ignition Facility, with a subset of experiments demonstrating fusion self-heating beyond radiation and conduction losses.

  • A. B. Zylstra
  • , O. A. Hurricane
  •  & G. B. Zimmerman

• Perspective | 19 May 2021

  The data-driven future of high-energy-density physics

  This Perspective discusses how high-energy-density physics could tap the potential of AI-inspired algorithms for extracting relevant information and how data-driven automatic control routines may be used for optimizing high-repetition-rate experiments.

  • Peter W. Hatfield
  • , Jim A. Gaffney
  •  & Ben Williams

• Article | 24 February 2021

  Angular momentum generation in nuclear fission

  γ-ray spectroscopy experiments on the origin of spin in the products of nuclear fission of spin-zero nuclei suggest that the fission fragments acquire their spin after scission, rather than before.

  • J. N. Wilson
  • , D. Thisse
  •  & S. Ziliani

• Article | 30 January 2019

  Tripled yield in direct-drive laser fusion through statistical modelling

  A statistical approach to designing and predicting the fusion yield of cryogenic deuterium–tritium implosions leads to tripled yield in direct-drive laser fusion of deuterium–tritium layered targets.

  • V. Gopalaswamy
  • , R. Betti
  •  & J. A. Frenje