Plasma containment

Plasma containment

In nuclear physics, plasma containment refers to the act of maintaining a plasma in a discreet volume. For example, a toroidal fusion reactor is a plasma containment device. Electromagnetic interaction must often be used since a plasma by definition has a temperature orders of magnitude higher than the degradation temperature of any known material.


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