Editing Fusion power (section)

== Plasma behavior ==
Plasma is an ionized gas that conducts electricity.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Fitzpatrick |first=Richard |title=Plasma physics: an introduction |date=2014 |isbn=978-1466594265 |location=Boca Raton, Florida |publisher=CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group |language=en-us |oclc=900866248}}</ref> In bulk, it is modeled using [[magnetohydrodynamics]], which is a combination of the [[Navier–Stokes equations]] governing fluids and [[Maxwell's equations]] governing how [[magnetic field|magnetic]] and [[electric field]]s behave.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Alfvén |first1=H. |year=1942 |title=Existence of electromagnetic-hydrodynamic waves |journal=Nature |volume=150 |issue=3805 |pages=405–406 |bibcode=1942Natur.150..405A |doi=10.1038/150405d0 |s2cid=4072220}}</ref> Fusion exploits several plasma properties, including:
* Self-organizing plasma conducts electric and magnetic fields. Its motions generate fields that can in turn contain it.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Tuszewski |first1=M. |year=1988 |title=Field reversed configurations |url=https://zenodo.org/record/1235740 |journal=Nuclear Fusion |type=Submitted manuscript |volume=28 |issue=11 |pages=2033–2092 |doi=10.1088/0029-5515/28/11/008 |s2cid=122791237|doi-access=free }}</ref>
* [[Diamagnetism|Diamagnetic plasma]] can generate its own internal magnetic field. This can reject an externally applied magnetic field, making it diamagnetic.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Sijoy |first1=C. D. |last2=Chaturvedi |first2=Shashank |date=2012 |title=An Eulerian MHD model for the analysis of magnetic flux compression by expanding diamagnetic fusion plasma sphere |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fusengdes.2011.10.012 |journal=Fusion Engineering and Design |volume=87 |issue=2 |pages=104–117 |doi=10.1016/j.fusengdes.2011.10.012 |bibcode=2012FusED..87..104S |issn=0920-3796}}</ref>
* [[Magnetic mirror]]s can reflect plasma when it moves from a low to high density field.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Post |first=R. F. |title=Proceedings of the second United Nations International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy held in Geneva 1 September – 13 September 1958 |volume=32 |date=1958 |publisher=United Nations |editor-last=United Nations International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy |location=Geneva, Switzerland |language=en |oclc=643589395}}</ref><sup>:24</sup>