Magnets touted as fix for ITER design flaw
Nature: The €10-billion (US$15-billion) international fusion reactor ITER could be damaged by violent bursts of energy called edge localized modes (ELM) that are expected to rocket out of inner plasma core, unless a proposed solution is implemented, says Rick Moyer, a plasma physicist at the University of California, San Diego. A proposed solution will be put Norbert Holtkamp, the project's construction leader on the 18 March. It is expected to call for a complex arrangement of magnets to dampen the effects of the ELMs. Solving the problem is proving to be controversial, as any solution will cost and delay the already over-budgeted project further.
