mit nuclear fusion Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 07 Mar 2013 13:46:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Ignitor: MIT-Designed Fusion Reactor, Built in Italy and Assembled in Russia, Better Than ITER https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ignitor-fusion-reactor-russia-20100514/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ignitor-fusion-reactor-russia-20100514/#comments Fri, 14 May 2010 14:22:52 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=7622 Originally designed for studying astrophysics, a fusion reactor of the MIT from the 1970s, called "Alcator", could be the base of another one to be installed in Russia and managed by Bruno Coppi. The new reactor is called Ignitor and, as far as the plans sound, it is ready to surpass ITER as both performance and time to go into production.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ignitor-fusion-reactor-russia-20100514/feed/ 1 7622 Levitating Magnet: MIT's New Approach to Nuclear Fusion https://www.greenoptimistic.com/levitating-magnet-mits-new-approach-to-nuclear-fusion-20100201/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/levitating-magnet-mits-new-approach-to-nuclear-fusion-20100201/#respond Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:19:48 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=6423 University of Columbia researchers, along with their colleagues from MIT, have some results in reproducing the Earth's magnetic fields for developing nuclear power plants based on nuclear fusion - the ultimate dream of scientists that uses the same principle that the Sun operates on.

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