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Where is the power of nuclear fusion? We could be at a technological turning point

Where is the power of nuclear fusion? We could be at a technological turning point

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Mega-amp spherical tokamak in Oxfordshire, UK. Credit: Courtesy of MAST, CC BY-SA Our society faces the great challenge of providing sustainable, safe and affordable means of generating energy, while trying to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to net zero by 2050. To date, fusion energy developments, which potentially tick all of these boxes, have been funded …

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Fusion technology reaches a turning point that could change the energy game

Fusion technology reaches a turning point that could change the energy game

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Our society faces the great challenge of providing sustainable, safe and affordable ways to generate energy while trying to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to net zero around 2050. To date, fusion energy developments, which potentially tick all of these boxes, have been funded almost exclusively by the public sector. However, something is changing. Private equity …

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How far is the power of nuclear fusion? We could be at a turning point in technology

How far is the power of nuclear fusion? We could be at a turning point in technology

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Our society faces the great challenge of providing sustainable, safe and affordable means of generating energy, while trying to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to net zero by 2050. To date, fusion energy developments, which potentially tick all of these boxes, have been funded almost exclusively by the public sector. However, something is changing. Private equity …

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"It's really kind of saving the planet." MSU at the forefront of fusion energy.

“It’s really kind of saving the planet.” MSU at the forefront of fusion energy.

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The tens of millions of visitors who passed through General Electric’s Progressland Pavilion at the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair were treated to an animatronic-filled Progress Carousel designed by Walt Disney and a Skydome Spectacular presented as “the epic story of man’s efforts to harness and utilize nature’s new sources of energy for the benefit …

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Covering a cylinder with a magnetic coil triples its energy output during a nuclear fusion test

Covering a cylinder with a magnetic coil triples its energy output during a nuclear fusion test

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(a) Sketch of the magnetized NIF hohlraum constructed from AuTa4 with solenoid coil to carry current. (b) X-ray entrainment measured through one of the LEHs and incident laser powers for magnetized and unmagnetized AuTa4 hohlraum and two unmagnetized Au hohlraums. “BF” refers to “BigFoot”, the name of the previous ignition design. Credit: Physical examination letters …

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Internal energies of laser fusion do not match predictions

Internal energies of laser fusion do not match predictions

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Enlarge / Where the action takes place inside the National Ignition Facility. On Monday, a paper was published that describes some puzzling results from the National Ignition Facility, which uses many high-energy lasers focused on a small target to start a fusion reaction. Over the past few years, the facility has achieved key milestones, including …

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Nuclear fusion experiment reveals unexpected physics inside 'burning plasma'

Nuclear fusion experiment reveals unexpected physics inside ‘burning plasma’

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ABSTRACT breaks down mind-blowing scientific research, future technologies, new discoveries and major breakthroughs. Scientists working on the dream of nuclear fusion, a form of energy that could potentially provide abundant clean energy in the future, have discovered surprising and unexplained behavior among particles in a government lab, a new study reports. The findings hint at …

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