Researchers explore new recipe to create 'artificial sun'
Researchers have developed a new method to produce plasma, high-energy ions, to recreate the energy produced by fusion in the Sun. A mix of hydrogen, deuterium and helium-3, instead of the usual two-species mix was used to create plasma. The three-species mix successfully produced "efficient plasma heating" at the MIT-based tokamak and UK-based JET, the world's largest plasma confinement device.  