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A new method has been discovered that could significantly reduce the time and expense of important safety checks in nuclear power reactors. This new approach could save money and increase total power output in the short run. In the long run, it might increase plants’ safe operating lifetimes.
Physicists in Germany at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics recently found a way to minimize a major heat-loss problem plaguing a promising kind of nuclear fusion reactors called a “stellarator”.