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Watch Plasma Erupt in Full Color Inside a Fusion Reactor at 16,000 FPS : ScienceAlert (opens in a new tab)

sciencealert.com · 2026-10-01

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Claim 1 of 4Not checkedA high-speed color camera records plasma and lithium behavior inside Tokamak Energy’s ST40 tokamak at 16,000 frames per second.View evidenceHide evidence

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Claim 2 of 4Not checkedThe footage is meant to help physicists understand how to manage heat exhaust in fusion reactors, especially by tracing where lithium and other impurities radiate energy near the plasma edge.View evidenceHide evidence

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Claim 3 of 4Not checkedThe article says early ST40 results suggest an X-point radiator regime can produce a radiating region that moves across the X-point, significantly cools the plasma edge, and reduces heat reaching the divertor.View evidenceHide evidence

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Claim 4 of 4Not checkedThe researchers think much of the radiation in those experiments came from carbon knocked off the tokamak walls rather than the deliberately introduced lithium, though lithium and neon experiments are underway.View evidenceHide evidence

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Overview of ST40 results and future: expanding the physics basis of high-field spherical tokamaks

Nuclear Fusion · 2026 · Crossref

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Development of fast video recording of plasma interaction with a lithium limiter on T-11M tokamak

Fusion Engineering and Design · 2016 · Crossref

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