Scientists Just Uncovered a Major Challenge for Fusion Power – And It’s Not What You’d Expect
Researchers at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory are exploring how deuterium, a potential fusion fuel, interacts with ...
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What is Fusion, and Why Is It So Difficult to Achieve?
deuterium can be extracted inexpensively from seawater, and tritium can be produced from naturally abundant lithium. Future fusion reactors will not produce high activity, long lived nuclear waste, ...
To Unlock Limitless Energy, Scientists Needed a Secret Ingredient—And They May Have Just Found It
The new material could be key to finally building a successful fusion reactor.
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Some fuel lodges in the inner walls of fusion vessels: Researchers now have a better idea of how much
New research offers insights that could help reduce the amount of radioactive tritium embedded in the walls of fusion vessels to a minimum.
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General Fusion's reactor prototype creates plasma for the first time
Canadian startup General Fusion has been working on its unique approach to producing clean energy through nuclear fusion for ...
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World’s first steam-powered piston system sparks nuclear fusion plasma in Canada
In a global first, Richmond, Canada-headquartered fusion energy company General Fusion achieved the first-ever ...
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Unraveling Safe and Practical Fusion – New Insights into Trapped Fuel Shared
Fusion & Fuel Efficiency Nuclear Fusion is potentially the ultimate green energy source, producing no dangerous byproducts, radioactivity (the only “waste” is helium), or greenhouse gases. And it ...
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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) ...
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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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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Pulsar Fusion unveils nuclear fusion rocket concept for space travel
The Sunbird nuclear fusion rocket concept has the potential to more than ... the relative tiny amounts of the deuterium and helium-3 fuel mix required means "a spacecraft would launch with a fixed ...