General Fusion fires up its newest steampunk fusion reactor
The reactor, called Lawson Machine 26 (LM26), is General Fusion’s latest iteration in a string of devices that have tested ...
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General Fusion's reactor prototype creates plasma for the first time
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Scientists Just Uncovered a Major Challenge for Fusion Power – And It’s Not What You’d Expect
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The new material could be key to finally building a successful fusion reactor.
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Fusion energy: The holy grail of clean power
The Earth possesses virtually inexhaustible reserves of the raw materials—deuterium and tritium—essential for a fusion ...
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What is Fusion, and Why Is It So Difficult to Achieve?
Plans call for first-generation fusion reactors to use a mixture of deuterium and tritium — heavy types of hydrogen. In theory, with just a few grams of these reactants, it is possible to produce a ...
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US to test crucial nuclear ‘fusion blanket’ to produce sun-like power on Earth
Scientists at the United States Idaho National Laboratory (INL) are carrying out tests for ‘fusion blanket’ technologies to ...
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Fusion for the future: Nuclear lab plays key role in testing a crucial technology
A cutting-edge project to test “fusion blanket” technologies is taking shape, with the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) ...
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The quest for better fusion reactors is putting a new generation of superconductors to the test
Superconducting magnets inside a fusion reactor will experience conditions that aren’t ... In these conditions, ionized isotopes of hydrogen (deuterium and tritium) can overcome their electrostatic ...
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General Fusion fires up its newest steampunk fusion reactor
But where the National Ignition Facility uses lasers to compress a fuel pellet, General Fusion’s MTF reactor design relies on steam-driven pistons. Inside the chamber, deuterium-tritium fuel is ...