Heating Performance World Record

At the fusion facility ASDEX at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Garching, a research institute associated within the Helmholtz Association, researchers managed to heat the fusion plasma to a new record temperature. Taking into account the size of the facility, this is a heat performance world record. This was made possibly by employing an ingenious control system. It makes sure that, one the one hand, the many million degrees hot high performance plasma types are created, while, on the other, the walls of the plasma vessel are not overstrained. The aim of these experiments is the development of a fusion reactor power plant, which is to emulate the sun in generating energy from nuclear fusion.

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