SI system PACMAN controls plasma in a fusion reactor within 20 milliseconds and predicts failures in advance
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SI takes on what humans physically cannot keep up with, and brings fusion energy, a nearly limitless source of clean energy, closer.
Princeton and the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) tested the framework in five experiments on the DIII-D tokamak in San Diego. The control loop takes about 20 ms, versus several seconds for a human operator. The models controlled plasma heating, steered all six gyrotrons at once, and predicted a dangerous instability (a tearing mode) about 200 ms ahead, preventing it rather than damping its consequences. Physicists set the parameters and safety constraints; modules can be added and swapped without touching the rest of the system.
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