Researchers Visualize Energetic Ion Flow in Fusion Devices (IMAGE)

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Researchers Visualize Energetic Ion Flow in Fusion Devices

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Measured (left) and simulated (right) energetic ion flow in DIII-D plasmas. Beginning at the injected energies of neutral beams, injected ions move in space and energy due to interactions with electromagnetic waves.

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Image courtesy of X.D. Du, General Atomics

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