British Fusion Reactor Sites Identified
The UKAEA could choose a site for the STEP fusion reactor in 2022, the BBC reports. Science Minister George Freeman describes the STEP as “the UK’s first prototype fusion power plant.”
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MIT and Company achieve Major Fusion Milestone
Developing and building the electromagnet removes the greatest technological hurdle to completing Commonwealth’s SPARC fusion reactor. The SPARC is the fusion reactor Commonwealth’s executives claim they can build by 2025.
German Fusion Reactor could get twice as hot as the Sun
Scientists are planning an upgrade to the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator that could allow it to generate temperatures of 30 million degrees centigrade (54 million degrees Fahrenheit). Analysis of the earlier experiments shows they can adjust the Stellarator’s magnetic field cage to prevent a variety of heat loss known as neoclassical transport. Physicists think such adjustments can prevent enough heat loss to double the Wendelstein 7-X ‘s heat output.
Researchers 70% of the Way towards Fusion Ignition
Scientists think the laser briefly ignited a chain reaction they call plasma burning, FutureTimeLine claims. In plasma burning, the fusion reactions get hot enough to trigger more fusion reactions. The hope is to use the laser to trigger a self-sustaining fusion reaction that can generate power.
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NVIDIA Gaming GPU could make nuclear fusion a reality
“The GPU gives us access to a huge amount of computing power,” Kyle Morgan said. “This level of performance was driven by the computer gaming industry and, more recently, machine learning, but this graphics card provides a really great platform for controlling plasmas as well.”
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British government will test private fusion reactor
The UAKEA will will use the Demonstration Plant to test General Fusion’s Magnetized Target Fusion (MTF) technology, a press release indicates. Unlike other fusion processes, MFT uses mechanical systems to achieve fusion.
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First Private Fusion Reactor exceeds 100 Million Degrees
There is no evidence that Helion has achieved fusion. Instead, the company has reached an important milestone on the road to fusion.
Fusion Reactors achieve Milestones
Initial results from the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) test show the Super-X Diverter works, a UKAEA press release claims. The UKAEA claims the Super-X could “make compact fusion power plants commercially viable.”
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Another Company claims it can build a Fusion Reactor
TechCrunch speculates that TAE could build a commercial fusion reactor within 10 years. The Norman reactor’s plasma has reached temperatures of over 50 million degrees Celsius in several hundred test cycles over the past 18 months, TechCrunch claims.
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America’s First Fusion Factory Planned
Devens, Massachusetts, could be the home of the world’s first commercial fusion reactor.
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