What do we want to achieve: a well-confined, hot, dense plasma?


How do you trigger fusion reactions in large numbers ? You have to be able to confine a sufficiently dense and hot plasma efficiently enough. Why do we do this ?
→ The energy balance is the answer

Next, let’s translate the plasma energy balance into terms of the plasma’s physical parameters…
→ This is the Lawson criterion. The three keys to the success of a fusion machine are: confinement efficiency, plasma density and temperature.