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China's commercial 'artificial sun' achieves first discharge (www.globaltimes.cn)

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[–] user134450@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

In the image of the discharge you can clearly see that the device has no cladding. That means a discharge would be limited to a duration of a few seconds, otherwise the material ablated from the wall would lead to extreme heat losses of the plasma. Did they include a future vessel cladding to the plasma volume calculation in the article?

[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Good points and questions. First wall interaction is going to be an interesting problem for this team to work around.