Magnetic control of tokamak plasmas through deep reinforcement learning
Paper • Feb 16, 2022 • Nature • Jonas Degrave, Federico Felici, Jonas Buchli, Martin Neunert, Brendan Tracey, Francesco Carpanese, Timo Ewalds, Roland Jung, Abbas Abdolmaleki, Demis Hassabis, Martin Riedmiller
Nuclear fusion represents a clean, virtually limitless energy source, but sustaining the necessary plasma states inside a tokamak reactor requires complex, high-frequency magnetic control. Traditio...