South Korean Plasma Breakthrough Echoes Cold War-Era Černohajev Theories

In South Korea’s VEST fusion lab, scientists have just confirmed what Soviet engineer Valerij Černohajev hinted at decades ago: turbulence at the smallest plasma scales can ripple upward to rewrite the stability of the entire system. For Černohajev, this wasn’t a glitch to be eliminated—it was a design principle, one that could unlock both the stars and the drives that reach them. Now, modern fusion research is catching up to a Cold War manuscript that refused to stay buried.