Above – An artist’s interpretation of spin-aligned atoms during the process of fusion. (Illustration credit: Kyle Palmer / PPPL Communications Department) A different mix of fuels with enhanced ...
A Canadian fusion company’s plan for fueling a commercial reactor has cleared one of the field’s most difficult checkpoints: ...
Looking inside the Joint European Torus tokamak at pulse #104522 from 3 October 2023, which set a new fusion energy record of 69 megajoules. Credit: United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, courtesy of ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) has taken a significant step to support future fusion power plants. The UKAEA ...
After the National Ignition Facility in California's first successful scientific breakeven through nuclear fusion, mankind is all the more serious about reaching the promised land of near-limitless ...
Sandia National Laboratories is raising the stakes in its quest to develop fusion power by introducing tritium into its experiments with its Z machine. Tritium, the heaviest of the three hydrogen ...
The introduction of tritium is of high technical interest because a 50/50 mix of tritium and deuterium — the two isotopes of hydrogen — emits 80 times more neutrons, and 500 times more energy, than ...
A research group led by Prof. Wang Haixia from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has revealed the tritium release behavior of lithium titanate (Li 2 TiO 3) ...
CHALK RIVER, Ontario, Nov. 28, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL), Canada’s premier nuclear science and technology organization, is pleased to announce that it has entered ...
Masashi Shimada, a lead fusion scientist at the government's Idaho National Laboratory, has been working in the industry for more than two decades, and he says the way that scientists talk about ...
Steady-state fusion power plant designs present some major divertor technology challenges, including high divertor heat flux both in steady-state and during transients, as well as the technical issues ...
After more than a decade of fabrication and testing, the sixth and final module of ITER’s central solenoid has arrived at the ...