Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists in China have made a new system for fueling the tokamak device. The continuous cryogenic pellet injection system ...

ITER’s success will depend in part on subduing potential plasma instabilities. This ORNL team is tackling the challenge with shattered pellet injection. A team of experts at Oak Ridge National ...

R&D engineer and pellet injection scientist Trey Gebhart of the Blanket and Fuel Cycle group in ORNL’s Fusion Energy Division with a pellet injection system testbed used for fusion R&D. The group ...

Researchers have 'chilled out' unwanted hot spots inside a plasma fusion vessel by injecting pellets of frozen neon and deuterium straight into the hot plasma. A shot of icy chemical cocktail -- ...

The quest for sustainable fusion energy relies heavily on maintaining stable tokamak plasmas despite the inherent risk of sudden disruptions. These disruptions involve rapid losses of thermal energy, ...