Spin-off Technologies
MRI Scanner
Plasma fusion technological spin-offs are creating breakthroughs throughout our society. Plasma fusion research has spread into areas ranging from "cold" pasteurization of foods, new medical techniques, environmental cleanup, switch and welding technology, and plasma-based space and propulsion systems. These highly specialized fields have little in common with each other, but all benefit greatly from plasma research. In medicine the study of magnetically confined plasma has yielded MRI scanners, which have the ability to view and locate tumors and abnormalities that would have once required exploratory surgery. Environmentally, our world has reaped the rewards of plasma research. This has been achieved through new techniques of nuclear waste clean-up resulting from the advancement in Laser technologies gained through inertial confinement chambers. Also, new plasma research has developed ways to eliminate CO2 exhaust from cars.
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The croyblaster unite is the nuclear waste clean-up technology that has resulted from plasma research. This technology is equivalent to sand blasting nuclear radiation from material. A basic idea on how this works is the cryoblaster directs pellets of frozen carbon dioxide at high velocities effectively cleaning the material without leaving any residue. This technology was developed from techniques that were used in developing inertial confinement chambers.
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