For heating plasma in fusion devices, researchers unravel how electrons respond to neutral beam injection

For heating plasma in fusion devices, researchers unravel how electrons respond to neutral beam injection



Fusion research requires megawatts of power to heat the plasma. One approach used by research tokamaks to achieve the required power input is neutral beam injection (NBI). With NBI, fast neutral particles are generated in a device called a beam source and then injected into the plasma.