Princeton physicists map a lower-energy path to fusion ignition that heats plasma before compressing it
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory calculations suggest heating plasma before raising its density could reach fusion ignition with far less energy. The Physical Review Letters paper keeps the Lawson criterion's endpoint and ranks the routes toward it by energy cost.
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