General Fusion fires up its newest steampunk fusion reactor
The reactor, called Lawson Machine 26 (LM26), is General Fusion’s latest iteration in a string of devices that have tested ...
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Nuclear fusion fuel could be made greener with new chemical process
Lithium-6 is a crucial material for nuclear fusion reactors, but isolating it is challenging – now researchers have found a way to do this without using toxic mercury ...
Researchers in Texas Figure Out a Non-Toxic Method of Making Fuel for Nuclear Fusion
Enriched Lithium is a critical ingredient in fusion reactors. Making it is a toxic nightmare, but scientists may have found a ...
Renaissance Fusion raises €32M to radically simplify complex fusion reactors
The startup is betting that by simplifying stellarators, it can make fusion power cheaper and easier to maintain.
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General Fusion's reactor prototype creates plasma for the first time
The company announced yesterday that it had created plasma inside its prototype reactor – a major milestone in proving its technology. This proves General Fusion's Lawson Machine 26 (LM26 ...
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General Fusion fires up its newest steampunk fusion reactor
a superheated fourth state of matter required for fusion, inside a prototype reactor. The milestone marks the beginning of a 93-week quest to prove that the outfit’s steampunk approach to fusion ...
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Max Planck spinout unveils ‘world’s most viable’ fusion reactor design — and only needs 6 years to build it
and McLaren — has unveiled a fusion energy reactor design it believes offers the quickest route to commercially viable fusion power. Dubbed Stellaris, the machine is a quasi-isodynamic (QI ...
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US-built fusion reactor structure completes 60-foot-tall magnet ‘exoskeleton’ for ITER
Described as an exoskeleton, or a cage, the support structure surrounds the central solenoid, which is a 60-foot-tall ...
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Nuclear fusion breakthrough: 'Artificial sun' reactor sets a new world record by generating a steady loop of plasma for 1,337 seconds - taking the world closer towards ...
A world record for nuclear fusion has been smashed after an ‘artificial sun’ reactor was able to maintain a plasma for more than 22 minutes. The WEST reactor, in southern France, is at the ...
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Nobel recipient plans on creating laser nuclear fusion reactor
SAN FRANCISCO--A start-up that a Nobel laureate co-founded plans to commercialize a nuclear fusion reactor using laser technology by around 2030. Shuji Nakamura, co-recipient of the 2014 Nobel ...
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French experimental nuclear fusion reactor WEST successfully confines plasma for 22 minutes, setting a new world record
The French Atomic Energy Commission's (CSA) experimental fusion reactor WEST in Cadarache in southern France has succeeded in confining the high-temperature plasma needed for nuclear fusion for 22 ...