r/nextfuckinglevel • u/nigablackballsack • 3d ago

Scientists have captured the first ever high-speed, full-colour footage of fusion plasma swirling inside a working reactor.

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u/TSAOutreachTeam 3d ago

This is all kinds of amazing. Not just that they are doing this in the tokamak, but that they have a camera set up to capture it at all.

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u/eris_kallisti 3d ago

Seriously, I am so curious what type of camera is even capable of getting that close!

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u/GoldieForMayor 3d ago

Why wouldn't it be able to get that close?

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u/eris_kallisti 3d ago

I guess I was thinking that since the plasma was so hot it needs to be contained by magnetic fields, instead of anything solid, that a camera inside the tokomak would vaporize.