{"id":3945,"date":"2012-02-09T17:12:19","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T00:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=3945"},"modified":"2021-01-18T01:39:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T09:39:30","slug":"feb-9-2012-an-overview-of-fusion-energy-research-taming-turbulence-and-transport-in-magnetized-plasmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=3945","title":{"rendered":"Feb. 9, 2012: An overview of fusion energy research: taming turbulence and transport in magnetized plasmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong><br \/>\nTroy Carter<br \/>\nUCLA<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nAbstract:<\/strong><br \/>\nI will give an overview of the challenges associated with harnessing nuclear fusion as a terrestrial power source and the progress that has been made in research in this area. In particular, I will discuss turbulence in magnetically-confined plasmas and how transport associated with this turbulence limits the confinement achievable in current and planned experiments. I will present recent UCLA research that has helped advance our understanding of the basic physics of turbulence and turbulent transport in magnetized plasmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Troy Carter UCLA Abstract: I will give an overview of the challenges associated with harnessing nuclear fusion as a terrestrial power source and the progress that has been made in research in this area. In particular, I will discuss turbulence in magnetically-confined plasmas and how transport associated with this turbulence limits the confinement achievable &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=3945\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Feb. 9, 2012: An overview of fusion energy research: taming turbulence and transport in magnetized plasmas&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[256],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colloquia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3945"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13226,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945\/revisions\/13226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}