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Category: Fusion power
ITER Fusion Energy Project: ‘Record-setting Disaster’
With each passing decade, this record-breaking monument to big international science looks less and less like a cathedral—and more like a mausoleum.
Surprise: The Gigantic International ITER Fusion Project “May Be Delayed by Years”
The 2025 planned date to create a plasma has been set back for “months, even years”.
DOE Offers $33 Million to Fund a Credible AI Fusion Proposal
So the DOE is offering money to AI researchers, in the hope that the magic of AI can help make the magic of nuclear fusion a reality.
National Ignition Facility Exceeds Break Even Nuclear Fusion
An American first on a par with the historical significance of the moon landing – scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have exceeded fusion break even.
World Economic Forum: Hydrogen Boron Nuclear Fusion Anticipated by 2030
Are greens replacing fantasies of energy sources which don’t work, with fantasies of energy sources which don’t exist?
Lawrence Livermore Claims a Near Break Even Nuclear Fusion Burn
Inertial confinement fusion researchers have claimed a near break even experimental nuclear fusion burn, in which energy produced by the fusion reaction was comparable to the energy injected to initiate…
Futile fusion research
Is there hope for commercially viable fusion power? Yes, because other “magnetic bottles” and fusion fuel cycles exist. The related physics is much more difficult, but we won’t know if…
General Atomics to ship world’s most powerful magnet to ITER global fusion energy project
San Diego, June 15 – After a decade of design and fabrication, General Atomics is ready to ship the first module of the Central Solenoid, the world’s most powerful magnet.…
Bottling the world’s coldest plasma
Laser-cooled plasma-in-a-bottle could answer questions about the sun, fusion power RICE UNIVERSITY Research News HOUSTON – (March 1, 2021) – Rice University physicists have discovered a way to trap the…
EU Turns to Magic to Progress their Clean Energy Agenda
The European Union is so desperate for their clean energy push to yield a viable solution, they have just given €3,999,870 to a cold fusion research team.
Korean artificial sun, KSTAR, sets the new world record of 20-sec-long operation at 100 million °C
The Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research(KSTAR), a superconducting fusion device also known as the Korean artificial sun, set the new world record as it succeeded in maintaining the high temperature…
Behold the mayo: Experiments reveal ‘instability threshold’ of elastic-plastic material
Rayleigh-Taylor-instability experiments confirm that the instability of elastic-plastic material is a function of initial conditions, such as amplitude and wavelength; characterization could apply to problems relevant to inertial confinement fusion…
MIT continues progress toward practical fusion energy
From the “we are this close to nuclear fusion department, 7th decade edition” and MIT: In series of talks, researchers describe major effort to address climate change through carbon-free power.…
The bright light of nuclear fusion might burn away climate doomsters’ fears
By Larry Kummer. From the Fabius Maximus website. Summary: News from the frontiers of science, where the future is being built and the predictions of doomsters will be defeated. Also,…
MIT tries to reboot stalled nuclear fusion power development
From MIT and the “always 15 years away” department. MIT and newly formed company launch novel approach to fusion power – Goal is for research to produce a working pilot plant…
Laser-boron fusion now ‘leading contender’ for energy
From the UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES and the “coming to a power plant near you in 30 to 50 years” department A laser-driven technique for creating fusion that dispenses…
Renewables Advocates Trash Talk Nuclear Fusion
Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to renewables advocates, renewables will soon be so cheap it won’t be worth pouring more money into researching nuclear fusion. Renewable Energy Threatens the…
Claim: Brexit an "Existential Threat" to Advanced Nuclear Fusion Research
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Professor Ian Chapman, chief of the UK Atomic Energy Authority is worried the Brexit negotiation standoff between Britain and the EU poses a threat to…
ITER Nuclear Fusion Project: First Burn Delayed until 2035
Guest essay by Eric Worrall A new ITER Nuclear Fusion timetable has been agreed, which slips the first scheduled Deuterium / Tritium burn to 2035 – 8 years after the…
Competition to Achieve Viable Nuclear Fusion Heating Up
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t The Register The international ITER Fusion project might be mired in cost overruns and severe delays, but competition is heating up, between China and…
German Continuous Nuclear Fusion Reactor Milestone
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Germany has activated its new Wendelstein 7-X Stellarator reactor for the first time, briefly testing its ability to heat and contain a Helium plasma. The…
Greenpeace: Nuclear Fusion Research is Risky and Ignorant
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Greenpeace has strongly condemned investment in the International ITER Fusion Project, claiming the money spent on ITER should instead be spent on renewables. According to…
Fusion reactors 'economically viable' say experts
From Durham University: Fusion reactors could become an economically viable means of generating electricity within a few decades, and policy makers should start planning to build them as a replacement…
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