World Nuclear News today reports a new milestone in fusion work in an article whose abstract summarizes the breakthrough:
“A new mode of improved plasma confinement has been demonstrated at the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences announced. It said the new high-confinement and self-organising Super I-mode “represents the reliability and advancement of the machine itself but also offers insights into how to better maintain the plasma operating stably and for long duration.”