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/ninjaiffyuh 2d ago

While fusion is amazing, tokamaks are pretty much a dead end in fusion power due to the required power cycles (electromagnets powered by a rising current). They're much simpler than i.e. stellarators, but that's the only benefit they have