nuclear fusion
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We’ll Have to Wait a Bit Longer for the World’s Biggest Fusion Reactor
The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) Organisation announced what has long been known: The largest tokamak in the world will be delayed further, prolonging the awaited nuclear fusion machine’s operations by at least a decade. ITER is a massive doughnut-shaped magnetic fusion device called a tokamak. Tokamaks use magnetic fields to control superheated plasmas in…
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Nuclear Fusion Machine Smashes Energy Record, Clean Energy Now ‘Closer Than Ever’
A UK-based nuclear fusion collaboration just produced a record amount of energy, a refreshing dose of good news in humankind’s quest for cleaner energy sources. The Joint European Torus facility, or JET, produced just over 69 megajoules of heat. A brief distillation of nuclear fusion: It is a reaction by which atomic nuclei fuse, turning…
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Nuclear Fusion Scientists Successfully Recreate Net Energy Gain
While the U.S. Department of Energy announced a successful test in December, July’s experiment reportedly produced even more energy.
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The Marathon Race Toward Fusion Power Could Be Reaching a Sprint
In September, a very large, incredibly powerful magnet was unloaded in Saint-Paul-lez-Durance in Southern France to be incorporated into the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), a major international collaboration that is attempting to prove the economic and technical feasibility of nuclear fusion.