Fusion -- Blocking the Heat (IMAGE)

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Fusion -- Blocking the Heat

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A novel technique can help protect the innermost wall in a fusion reactor from the energy created when hydrogen isotopes are heated to temperatures hotter than the sun.

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