Research on the Alcator C-Mod experiment at MIT has made an unexpected connection between two seemingly unrelated but important phenomena observed in tokamak plasmas: spontaneous plasma rotation and the global energy confinement of the plasma.
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A key challenge in producing fusion energy is confining the plasma long enough for the ionized hydrogen to fuse and produce net power.
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