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zapkitty
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opensource wrote: On Wikipedia, it says, “If the plasma is optically thin, the bremsstrahlung radiation leaves the plasma, carrying part of the internal plasma energy.” Does this mean that if it is made to not be optically thin, that bremsstrahlung cooling won’t occur?

How would you do that? In fusion “optically thin” is in reference to x-ray photons.