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What is ITER?
2024-01-24 (or before) in ITER - the way to new energyITER ("The Way" in Latin) is one of the most ambitious energy projects in the world today. In southern France, 35 nations* are collaborating to build the world's largest tokamak, a magnetic fusion device that has been designed to prove the feasibility of fusion as a large-scale and carbon-free source of energy based on the same principle that powers our Sun and stars. The experimental campaign that will be carried out at ITER is crucial to advancing fusion science and preparing the way for the fusion power plants of tomorrow. The primary objective of ITER is the investigation and demonstration of burning plasmas—plasm...
Tagged under: Nuclear Power | Nuclear Fusion | France
Inside the world's first reactor that could produce unlimited energy
2024-01-24 (or before) in EuronewsEuronews Next goes behind the scenes at the world’s largest nuclear fusion device attempting to harness the same reaction that powers the Sun and stars.
Tagged under: Nuclear Power | Nuclear Fusion
World’s largest nuclear reactor aims to power the Earth with unlimited energy: ‘Arguably the most complex machine ever designed’
2024-01-22 in Yahoo"The longer that we wait for fusion to arrive, the more we need it."
Tagged under: Nuclear Power | Nuclear Fusion
UK's nuclear fusion site ends experiments after 40 years
2023-10-13 in The BBCThe JET laboratory, the focus of European fusion experiments for decades, carries out its last test.
Tagged under: Nuclear Fusion
Nuclear Fusion: Eternal Energy = Eternal Damnation
2023-06-06 by in resilienceContrary to widespread propaganda, humanity does not desperately need more energy. We desperately need to live better with less energy.
Tagged under: Nuclear Power | Nuclear Fusion
$16-million-a-second and no electricity
2023-04-10 in Beyond Nuclear International | Bringing the world's anti-nuclear campaigns togetherITER fusion reactor has countries cooperating for the wrong cause
Tagged under: Nuclear Fusion | Electricity
The big idea: will fusion power save us from the climate crisis?
2023-04-03 in The GuardianRecent breakthroughs have been wildly hyped – but there’s still reason to hope
Tagged under: Nuclear Power | Nuclear Fusion
Accelerating fusion science through learned plasma control
2023-03-10 (or before) in DeepMindSuccessfully controlling the nuclear fusion plasma in a tokamak with deep reinforcement learning
Tagged under: Nuclear Power | Nuclear Fusion
How close is nuclear fusion power?
2023-02-07 (or before) in YouTubeClaim your SPECIAL OFFER for MagellanTV here: https://try.magellantv.com/sabinehossenfelder. Start your free trial TODAY so you can watch The Story of Energy...
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Nuclear Power | Nuclear Fusion
What the fusion breakthrough in the US means for Europe
2023-01-10 (or before) in NatureAn American lab has reached "ignition” with a technology that Europe has neglected. Italian fusion experts discuss whether it is time for a different strategy. An American lab has reached "ignition” with a technology that Europe has neglected. Italian fusion experts discuss whether it is time for a different strategy.
Tagged under: Nuclear Power | Nuclear Fusion
Breakthrough in nuclear fusion could mean ‘near-limitless energy’
2022-12-12 in The GuardianResearchers managed to release more energy than they put in: a positive gain known as ignition
Tagged under: Nuclear Power | Nuclear Fusion
Nuclear fusion breakthrough as Korean reactor achieves 100mC for 30 seconds | The Independent
2022-09-09 (or before) in The Independent‘Artificial sun’ achieves milestone towards near-limitless clean energy.
Tagged under: Nuclear Power | Nuclear Fusion
U.S. Project Reaches Major Milestone toward Practical Fusion Power
2022-02-26 (or before) by in Scientific AmericanIn a world first, the National Ignition Facility has generated a “burning plasma,” a fusion reaction on the cusp of being self-sustaining
Tagged under: Nuclear Power | Nuclear Fusion
Nuclear fusion heat record a ‘huge step’ in quest for new energy source
2022-02-09 in The GuardianOxfordshire scientists’ feat raises hopes of using reactions that power sun for low-carbon energy
Tagged under: Nuclear Power | Nuclear Fusion
European researchers achieve fusion energy record
2022-02-09 (or before) in EUROfusion - Realising Fusion EnergyTagged under: Nuclear Power | Nuclear Fusion
Recreating the Sun: What is nuclear fusion, is it dangerous and is it likely?
2022-01-02 (or before) in CGTN - European newsScientists have long been trying to harness nuclear fusion – much safer and more powerful than fission, but also much more difficult...
Tagged under: Nuclear Power | Nuclear Fusion
US and China Scientific Fusion In and Outside of the Lab Continues – Asia Matters for America
2022-01-02 (or before) in Asia Matters for America - Asia Matters for AmericaCollaboration between American and Chinese scientists leads to global innovation and progress
Tagged under: Nuclear Power | Nuclear Fusion
New dawn: Chinese scientists move step closer to creating ‘artificial sun’ in quest for limitless energy via nuclear fusion
2022-01-02 (or before) in South China Morning PostNew dawn: Chinese scientists move step closer to creating ‘artificial sun’ in quest for limitless energy via nuclear fusion
Tagged under: Nuclear Power | Nuclear Fusion
Fusion - Frequently asked questions | IAEA
2022-01-02 (or before) in iaea.orgFusion is among the most environmentally friendly sources of energy. There are no CO2 or other harmful atmospheric emissions from the fusion process, which means that fusion does not contribute to greenhouse gas emissions or global warming. Its two sources of fuel, hydrogen and lithium, are widely available in many parts of the Earth.
Tagged under: Nuclear Power | Hydrogen | Lithium | Greenhouse Gases | Nuclear Fusion
MIT Achieves Breakthrough in Nuclear Fusion
2022-01-02 (or before) in Popular MechanicsNew experiments with helium-3 in a magnetic confinement tokamak have produced exciting results for the future of fusion energy, including a tenfold increase in ion energy.
Tagged under: Nuclear Power | Hydrogen | Nuclear Fusion
Chinese Scientists Say They’ve Discovered Cheap New Way to Do Nuclear Fusion
2022-01-01 (or before) in Futurism | Science and Technology News and VideosA team of scientists in China say they’ve discovered a cost-effective method of creating fusion energy that could rival much more expensive counterparts.
Tagged under: Nuclear Power | Nuclear Fusion
COP26 – Fusion: abundant, safe and sustainable energy for the future - Fusion for Energy
2021-11-08 in fusionforenergy.europa.euOfficial publication highlights the long-term potential of fusion in the zero-carbon economy
Tagged under: Nuclear Power | COP26 | Nuclear Fusion
Polar Zero: climate science-art collaboration - British Antarctic Survey
2021-10-10 (or before) in British Antarctic SurveyThe Polar Zero experience at Glasgow Science Centre is a fusion of science and art made for COP26 climate summit
Tagged under: Nuclear Power | COP26 | Nuclear Fusion | Antarctic
MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion energy
2021-09-13 (or before) in MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyFor the first time, a large high-temperature superconducting electromagnet was ramped to a field strength of 20 tesla, the most powerful magnetic field of its kind ever created. The demonstration helps resolve the greatest uncertainty in the quest to build the first fusion power plant that can produce more energy than it consumes, according to project leaders at MIT and startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS).
Tagged under: Nuclear Power | Nuclear Fusion
World's most powerful magnet being shipped to ITER fusion reactor
2021-06-22 (or before) by in New ScientistTagged under: Nuclear Power | Nuclear Fusion
Mast Upgrade: UK experiment could sweep aside fusion hurdle - BBC News
2021-06-18 (or before) in The BBCResults from a UK experiment could help clear a hurdle to achieving commercial fusion power.
Tagged under: Nuclear Power | Nuclear Fusion
Is nuclear fusion the answer to the climate crisis?
2020-12-28 in The GuardianPromising new studies suggest the long elusive technology may be capable of producing electricity for the grid by the end of the decade
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Nuclear Power | Nuclear Fusion | Electricity | Electricity Grid
Compact Nuclear Fusion Reactor Is ‘Very Likely to Work,’ Studies Suggest (Published 2020)
2020-09-29 in The New York TimesTagged under: Nuclear Power | Nuclear Fusion
World’s largest nuclear fusion project begins assembly in France
2020-07-28 in The GuardianProject aims to show that clean fusion power can be generated at commercial scale
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Nuclear Power | Greenhouse Gases | Nuclear Fusion | France
A lightbulb moment for nuclear fusion?
2019-10-27 in The GuardianScientists pursuing the holy grail of energy generation are taking giant steps
Tagged under: Nuclear Power | Nuclear Fusion
Fusion breakthrough as China's "artificial sun" reaches 100 million degrees
2018-11-15 in New AtlasThe day of clean, limitless energy from nuclear fusion has taken another step closer after China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) reached a core plasma temperature of over 100 million degrees Celsius (180 million degrees Fahrenheit).
Tagged under: Nuclear Power | China | Nuclear Fusion
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