ELISE Tests New Plasma Heating

The testing facility ELISE (Extraction from a Large Ion Source Experiment) now has been commissioned at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP), associated within the Helmholtz Association. It is the world's largest facility of its kind. In the next two years, IPP researchers headed by Prof. Dr Ursel Fantz will use it to test whether a newly developed radiation source can heat hydrogen plasma to ignition temperature. In emulation of the Sun, a future fusion power plant is intended to generate energy from nuclear fusion. To this end, the fuel – a hydrogen plasma – needs to be heated to more than 100 million degree Celsius.

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To the press release of the IPP

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