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The efficient production of electricity from nuclear fusion in magneticallyconfined plasmas relies on a good confinement of the thermal energy. For morethan thirty years, the observation that such confinement depends on the mass ofthe plasma isotope and its interaction with apparently unrelated plasmaconditions has remained largely unexplained and it has become one of the mainunsolved issues. By means of numerical studies based on the gyrokinetic theory,we quantitatively show how the plasma microturbulence depends on the isotopemass through nonlinear multiscale microturbulence effects involving theinterplay between zonal flows, electromagnetic effects and the torque applied.This finding has crucial consequences for the design of future reactors since,in spite of the fact that they will be composed by multiple ion species, theirextrapolation from present day experiments heavily relies on the knowledgeobtained from a long experimental tradition based in single isotope plasmas.

Improved energy confinement with nonlinear isotope effects in magnetically confined plasmas