How It Works: Sheared-Flow Stabilization
Keeping fusion reactions going is fundamentally difficult because plasmas quickly fizzle out. Zap Energy’s key advance relies on considering the plasma as a dynamic moving flow, like a river. Sheared-flow stabilization in a Z pinch — a plasma physics innovation pioneered by Zap Energy Co-Founder Uri Shumlak — can theoretically extend the lifetime of a Z-pinched plasma almost indefinitely.
