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Compact Lasers at CSU Recreate the Fusion-Making Environment of Stars

Ece Polat — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 15:39:07 +0000

The future to laser-driven fusion has been opened with the research conducted by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists. Within this research, scientists created pressures of more than a billion atmospheres. That equals to the pressure in the center of a medium-sized star. After LLNL’s groundbreaking innovation, Colorado State University (CSU) took the research to a […]

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13-yo Jamie Edwards Makes Nuclear Fusion Happen in His School Science Lab

Mila Luleva — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 13:47:17 +0000

Another groundbreaking news coming from a teenager. A 13 yo boy from Lancashire successfully carried nuclear fusion, becoming the youngest person in history, who have made such an incredible achievement. The project was fully supported by the Penwortham Priory Academy, the school which the boy attended. Jamie Edwards is the hero of the week. All […]

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Nuclear Fusion: NIF Scientists Getting Out More Energy Than They Put In

Danny Harper — Sat, 15 Feb 2014 08:38:21 +0000

The black sheep of the clean energy family, nuclear power, has dealt with a PR stigma for decades. Some of it deserved (potential destructiveness in a weaponized form) and much of it undeserved (panic over instances like Three-Mile Island, which resulted in zero deaths and no radiation problems). This has led to funding-related issues regarding research into harnessing nuclear power, with […]

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Nuclear Fusion at NIF Produces Extra Energy, For the First Time in History

Adele Hall — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 10:22:27 +0000

An experiment by the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in late September has confirmed they have gotten past the first step in harnessing the sun’s power here on earth. The obstacle they have overcome is getting more energy out of a fuel burn than what goes into it. Though they did not achieve the NIF’s standard […]

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Andrea Rossi’s “E-cat” Cold Fusion Device Really Works, Says Science Panel

Ovidiu Sandru — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 14:58:59 +0000

At the beginning of the 90’s, cold fusion was one of the world’s favorite topics. At the time, Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons had seemingly obtained excess heat in an electrolysis experiment made with heavy water on the surface of a palladium electrode. They were attributing this to a fusion reaction. During the ensuing years, […]

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New Chance for NIF to Develop Nuclear Fusion

Leigh Hutchens — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 12:51:18 +0000

A series of lasers built to study nuclear fusion reactions at the US National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory aims to replace uranium-based nuclear fission with cleaner, safer fusion reactions to provide energy to power plants. Despite the fact the world’s biggest laser did not make a key target date on the […]

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Teenager Builds Homemade Nuclear Fusion Reactor

Mila Luleva — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 18:59:37 +0000

If somebody told you that a teenager built a nuclear fusion reactor in his garage, it would take quite some convincing until you believe them. Well, it has happened. And it was not only this. Conrad Farnsworth of Newcastle, Wyom, built the reactor when he was only 16, but now, at the age of 18, […]

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South Korea Builds Nuclear Fusion Power Plant

Mila Luleva — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 18:39:20 +0000

South Korea has initiated the development of a design for a fusion power demonstration reactor. The provisionally named Korean Demonstration Fusion Power Plant, K-DEMO, will be build in collaboration with the US Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) in New Jersey. The project is planned to be fully completed by year 2030, with […]

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Fusion Electricity to Become Part of European Grid by 2050

Mila Luleva — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 19:12:01 +0000

A road map that indicates how the energy of the stars , or fusion energy, can be added to the European grid by year 2050, was released by the European Fusion Development Agreement (EFDA). Detailed review of the current status of fusion research, identification of open issues and development of new programmes and research will […]

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Scientists Find Way to Stabilize Plasma and Control Nuclear Fusion Energy

Mila Luleva — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 17:16:43 +0000

The plasma used in fusion reactors holds great potential in terms of bringing down costs of this energy source. Over the past few years, researchers have been exploring ways to contain and stabilize this plasma. During the International Atomic Energy Association’s 24th annual Fusion Energy Conference, held in San Diego this week, the team led […]

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World’s Most Powerful Nuclear Fusion Laser Array Misses the Mark

Benji Jerew — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 18:59:38 +0000

The National Ignition Facility [NIF] in California, US, is the world’s leading nuclear fusion research lab. Fusion is the stuff stars are made of, literally. Heat energy in the billions of degrees, and pressure in the billions of atmospheres, forces hydrogen atoms to fuse, releasing energy and helium, as well as sustaining further reaction. Recreating […]

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Scientists Theorize One of the Problems Facing Nuclear Fusion

Ovidiu Sandru — Mon, 07 May 2012 16:01:55 +0000

Fusion reactors are thought to be the mothers of all power plants. They’ll emit no gases, eat up no polluting resources and provide all of the energy humanity needs for heading towards self-destr… evolution. However, science didn’t allow us thus far to produce more energy than we consume in a nuclear fusion process, but a new […]

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How to Build a Home-Made Fusion Reactor (No Kidding!)

Ovidiu Sandru — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 16:17:35 +0000

Get your white coat, your plastic gloves, glasses and turn off the lights... you have just made your first nuclear fusion reactor and you want it to work. At least that's what instructables.com user Christensent suggests through a DIY posted on the site, aimed at those who want to do some exotic research.

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NIF Reports Partial Achievement of Nuclear Fusion: The Real Thing Planned For 2013

Ovidiu Sandru — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 19:15:58 +0000

The National Ignition Facility is a 3-stadiums-wide building, and a part of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, whose main interest is to make nuclear fusion possible. On Sep. 29, the $3.5 billion laser machine inside the NIF has proved the theory was right by firing its 192 laser beams on a tiny frozen hydrogen pellet, producing the fusion of some tritium and deuterium atoms.

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Ignitor: MIT-Designed Fusion Reactor, Built in Italy and Assembled in Russia, Better Than ITER

Ovidiu Sandru — Fri, 14 May 2010 14:22:52 +0000

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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NSW Scientists Demonstrating Laser-Ignited Radiation Free Nuclear Fusion

Ovidiu Sandru — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 10:39:43 +0000

An Australian team of scientists from the University of New South Wales seems to have discovered the recipe for making nuclear fusion possible without the high-temperature hassle and without the fear that it would produce harmful nuclear residues.

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Levitating Magnet: MIT's New Approach to Nuclear Fusion

Ovidiu Sandru — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:19:48 +0000

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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Todd Ditmire’s Petawatt Laser: One Step Closer to Nuclear Fusion

Ovidiu Sandru — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:53:27 +0000

Todd Ditmire, from the University of Texas, has invented a laser device that can produce petawatt power through a process of chirping, that takes a short light pulse (150 femtoseconds) and stretches it out in time, amplifies it to higher energy and then recompresses it to about 100 femtoseconds in time, obtaining 190 joules of energy.

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General Fusion Claims Cheap Nuclear Fusion Reactor: Competes With ITER

Ovidiu Sandru — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:28:51 +0000

General Fusion, a small startup company from Canada, claims they can build a new type of a fusion power plant in the next ten years, and build it a lot cheaper than ITER - for less than a billion dollars. They have already gathered $13.5 million from various private and public investors, who understood their technology would work and want some share of the eventual profit.

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NIF: Nuclear Fusion Research Facility Opened in California

Ovidiu Sandru — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:20:27 +0000

An attempt to recreate nuclear fusion, that takes place naturally inside stars' core, will be experimented at the National Ignition Facility (NIF), in California, that was inaugurated on Friday. The NIF is a 10-storey building with a surface as large as three football fields. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who cut the ribbon of the $3.5bn facility said it could "revolutionise our energy future".

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Ultra-Dense Deuterium Could Make Nuclear Fusion Happen

Ovidiu Sandru — Sat, 16 May 2009 12:42:14 +0000

...what if I told you scientists are about to create a material denser than the Sun's core? The material is called "ultra-dense deuterium", and a cube with 10 cm sides made of it would weigh no less than one hundred and thirty (130) tons.

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Fusion-Fission Hybrid Reactor: Getting Rid of 99% Nuclear Waste Cleanly

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:44:08 +0000

The main problem with nuclear power is that it leaves radioactive residues behind; otherwise, it would be the almost perfect solution for our energetic and climate crises. The almost-perfect solution comes from the physicists at the University of Texas at Austin, who created a way to "use fusion to relatively inexpensively destroy the waste from nuclear fission".

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Clean Nuclear Fusion Now Possible Using Electromagnetic Waves

Ovidiu Sandru — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 10:07:36 +0000

Two MIT scientists, physicist Yijun Lin and principal research scientist John Rice, using the university's Alcator C-Mod fusion reactor, proved that electromagnetic waves produced with the help of a Tokamak (pictured above) could be used to keep that plasma hot and make nuclear fusion possible.

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A nuclear fusion project approved to go

Ovidiu Sandru — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 14:21:56 +0000

Reproducing the power of the sun on Earth is no easy task, but an international team of physicists based in Europe is now preparing to give it a go. If their attempt to develop nuclear fusion works, it could provide a limitless and clean source of energy that promises to end reliance on the fossil […]

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