Hi.. We use 3 main methods to get the temperature nice and hot! :
1. The plasma can conduct electricity, like a copper wire. When you put an electrical current through a wire, it gets hot. The same is true for a plasma!
2. We can send microwaves into the plasma, a lot like the microwaves in your microwave oven at home!
3. We can fire a high energy beam of particles into the plasma. As these particles collide with the particles inside the reactor, they transfer there energy and heat the plasma particles up.
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