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The Economic Times
The Economic Times

AI has taken on a big challenge — it can detect warning signs of plasma instabilities & predict them before they disrupt the extreme conditions needed for fusion energy

Fusion energy has a timing problem.

Inside a tokamak, plasma must remain extraordinarily hot and stable for researchers to sustain a fusion reaction. But small disturbances can grow in milliseconds, creating instabilities that can disrupt the plasma before a human operator has enough time to respond.

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