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Rocket science got a bit more science-fiction-like as RocketStar announces it has successfully demonstrated a new ion drive that incorporates nuclear fusion. It’s not the sort of fusion that powers the Sun, but it does improve thrust by 50%.Continue Re… Continue reading Fusion drive space engine ready for flight
While coal was predominant in the past for energy generation, plants are shutting down worldwide to improve air quality and because they aren’t cost-competitive. It’s possible that idle infrastructure could …read more Continue reading You Got Fusion in My Coal Plant!
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has published an extensive paper confirming the validity of its 2022 fusion experiment where multiple lasers focused on a sphere of deuterium and tritium to achieve the first fusion ignition in a laboratory.Contin… Continue reading Historic fusion ignition in a lab experiment confirmed
Back in December of 2022, a team of researchers at the USA’s National Ignition Facility (NIF) announced that they had exceeded ‘scientific breakeven’ with their laser-based inertial confinement fusion (ICF) …read more Continue reading NIF’s Laser Fusion Experiment’s Energy Gain Passes Peer Review
The world needs gargantuan amounts of clean energy moving forward, making this an area of colossal and growing opportunity for disruptive innovations. Here are some of the fascinating energy ideas and technologies that made us most hopeful in 2023.Cont… Continue reading There’s hope yet: Clean energy advances that inspired us in 2023
The UK’s most famous fusion reactor – the Joint European Torus (JET) tokamak – saw its first plasma on June 25th of 1983. Its final plasma pulse was generated on …read more Continue reading UK’s JET Tokamak Retires After 40 Years And 105,842 Pulses
The insides of nuclear fusion reactors are violent and chaotic places. A new cold-spray coating can take the heat and also trap some rogue hydrogen particles at the same time, potentially making for smaller, better plasma chambers.Continue ReadingCateg… Continue reading Tantalum cold spray boosts potential of fusion reactor chambers
Japan’s JT-60SA fusion reactor project announced first plasma in October of this year to denote the successful upgrades to what is now the world’s largest operational, superconducting tokamak fusion reactor. …read more Continue reading Japan’s JT-60SA Generates First Plasma As World’s Largest Superconducting Tokamak Fusion Reactor
The world’s largest and most advanced tokamak fusion reactor has gone online as the EU/Japanese 370-tonne JT-60SA reactor was fired up for the first time during an inauguration ceremony in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.Continue ReadingCategory: Energy, Sci… Continue reading World’s largest tokamak fusion reactor powers up
Attempts to make a viable nuclear fusion reactor have on the whole been the domain of megabucks projects supported by countries or groups of countries, such as the European JET …read more Continue reading Superconducting Tape Leads To A Smaller Tokamak