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After decades of nuclear fusion power being always ten years away, suddenly we are looking at a handful of endeavours striving to be the first to Q > 1, the …read more Continue reading Commonwealth Fusion’s 20 Tesla Magnet: A Bright SPARC Towards Fusion’s Future
Scientists working with superconducting magnets have made a breakthrough that paves the way for carbon-free power. Continue reading MIT Scientists Report ‘Major Advance’ In Fusion Energy
Earlier this month, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) announced to the world that they had achieved a record 1.3 MJ yield from a fusion experiment at their National Ignition Facility …read more Continue reading Fusion Ignition: What Does The NIF’s 1.3 MJ Yield Mean For Fusion Research?
We’ve had nuclear fission reactors in operation all over the world for ages, but nuclear fusion always seems to be a decade or two away. While one cannot predict when …read more Continue reading Fueling Up For Fusion: MAST’s Super-X, JET’s Deuterium-Tritium Experiments For ITER, And More
The Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR) magnetic fusion reactor claimed a new record last month — containing hydrogen plasma at 100 megakelvins for 20 seconds. For reference, the core temperature of the Earth’s Sun is a mere 15 megakelvins, although to be fair, it has been in operation quite …read more
Do you remember in 1989 when two chemists announced they’d created a setup that created nuclear fusion at room temperature? Everyone was excited, but it eventually turned out to be very suspect. It wasn’t clear how they detected that fusion occurred and only a few of the many people who …read more
All of us probably know what neutrons are, or have at least heard of them back in physics class. Yet these little bundles of quarks are much more than just filler inside an atom’s nucleus. In addition to being an essential part of making matter as stable as it (usually) …read more
When it comes to nuclear fusion, the most well-known reactor type today is no doubt the tokamak, due to its relatively straight-forward concept of plasma containment. That’s not to say that there aren’t other ways to accomplish nuclear fusion in a way that could conceivably be used in a commercial …read more
Continue reading Nuclear Fusion Power Without Regular Tokamaks Or Stellarators
It’s hardly a secret that nuclear fusion has had a rough time when it comes to its image in the media: the miracle power source that is always ‘just ten years away’. Even if no self-respecting physicist would ever make such a statement, the arrival of commercial nuclear fusion power …read more
Continue reading Nuclear Fusion At 100: The Hidden Race For Energy Supremacy
“I realized that certain things that I thought were impossible for someone my age aren’t impossible,” said Jackson Oswalt, 14. Continue reading A Child Explains Why He Built a Nuclear Reactor in His Playroom