"AI Breakthrough: Engineers Overcome Fusion Problem for Boundless Clean Energy"
Engineers at Princeton have developed a tool using artificial intelligence to make sustained fusion reactions more stable, bringing commercial fusion energy a step closer. Nuclear fusion, which creates energy like the sun, produces three to four times more energy than fission and does not create radioactive waste. The new approach allows for predicting and preventing instabilities in the plasma, crucial for sustaining fusion reactions. The AI can recognize potential instabilities and adjust the machine's parameters to avoid them, without needing to understand the complex physics behind fusion reactions. This development may also provide insights into the underlying physics of fusion reactions.
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