Boosting Fusion Performance with Lithium (IMAGE)

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Boosting Fusion Performance with Lithium

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As more lithium is added (with increasing discharge number in yellow), the plasma light changes from red (from recycling of the deuterium fuel gas) to green (lithium emission from the edge of the plasma) and the overall (recycling) light levels decrease.

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Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

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