India has made another important advance in its pursuit of nuclear fusion energy with the development of a new system to strengthen plasma heating and control at the Institute for Plasma Research (IPR) in Gandhinagar. The latest development is linked to India’s Steady State Superconducting Tokamak-1 (SST-1), an experimental fusion device designed to study how extremely hot plasma can be produced and maintained for longer periods. Often described as an “artificial sun,” fusion