Small 3D-Printed Nuclear Fusion Reactor

Scientists have developed a kitchen-table-size, experimental 3D-printed Nuclear Fusion reactor.

The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) developed a small stellarator, a device that holds superheated plasma using high-temperature superconducting magnetic coils to enable nuclear fusion.

This shell-like structure, called a stellarator, contains plasma inside a vacuum tube, where atoms collide and their nuclei fuse, producing significant energy.

This compact fusion reactor, about the size of a kitchen table, uses a glass tube encased in 3D-printed nylon and nearly 10,000 rare-earth magnets to contain the plasma, similar to the energy-generation process in stars.

source spectrum.ieee