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Affordable, Accessible Fusion Power: A Reality in “Years, Not Decades”

Janina Lazo-Cruz — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 07:05:50 +0000

Fusion – “the process that powers the sun” – releases energy when two atomic nuclei bump to each other, fusing together, resulting in one bigger nucleus. It is known as the source capable of generating the most energy so far, making it a very important delegate in providing affordable, accessible, and cleaner energy. “The benefits […]

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Nuclear Fusion: “Chaotic” Movement of Electrons Through Plasma Can Now Be Simulated

Guest Contributor — Sat, 23 Sep 2017 16:55:24 +0000

Our ever-growing need for clean sources of energy has pushed fusion research to the point where we know largely understand the way in which plasma acts inside a fusion reactor. However, there is still much to figure out in terms of plasma physics. Scientists are currently developing a new type of reactor called a tokamak. […]

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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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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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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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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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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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