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With 2023 drawing to a close, it’s once again time to look at the significant, intriguing, and sometimes just plain daft science stories of the year. So, let’s dive in and see what the science types have been up to.Continue ReadingCategory: ScienceTags… Continue reading The Year in Science 2023
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
Tokamak Energy has released the first images of what its commercial fusion power plant, which it says would safely generate enough electricity to power 50,000 homes in the 2030s, would look like.Continue ReadingCategory: Energy, ScienceTags: Nuclear Fu… Continue reading Tokamak Energy unveils images of fusion power plant slated for 2030s
Oxford-based UK tech firm Tokamak Energy has reached a milestone in privately-funded fusion research after its ST-40 spherical tokamak reactor reached a temperature of 100 million °C (180 million °F), which it says is the threshold for commercial fusio… Continue reading Tokamak Energy achieves temperature threshold for commercial fusion
Good news for fusion energy progress and a new world record for the Chinese Academy of Sciences, as its Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), or “artifical sun,” maintains 70 million degrees Celsius (126 million °F) for 1,056 seconds.Co… Continue reading Chinese tokamak keeps plasma 2.6 times as hot as the Sun for 17 minutes
Scientists are exploring nuclear fusion technology through various experimental devices, and a popular design for this pursuit of clean, practically inexhaustible energy is known as the tokamak. An exciting example of these donut-shaped reactors can be… Continue reading KSTAR fusion reactor sets record with 30-second plasma confinement
China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) is one of a number of promising nuclear fusion research devices in operation around the world, and over the past few years we’ve seen it take some impressive steps forward. Chinese state medi… Continue reading China claims new fusion record with its “artificial sun” nuclear reactor
For nearly a century, scientists have been tantalized by the prospect of attaining an inexhaustible source of energy through nuclear fusion. Unfortunately, engineering a controlled environment where atomic nuclei can continuously fuse under extreme pre… Continue reading Four ways to fusion: The pros and pitfalls of our nuclear power pursuit
As the Sun and stars themselves can attest, nuclear fusion could be an essentially unlimited energy source, if we can only harness it. The problem is that the plasma used is inherently unstable, and large eruptions can damage the reactors con… Continue reading Nuclear fusion plasma could be stabilized against large eruptions – by causing lots of small ones