Bill Gates-backed Commonwealth Fusion Systems hits key reactor construction milestone
Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) marked a major milestone Tuesday morning, announcing the installation of a key component of ...
Simulations show six valves provide ideal setup for rapidly dispersing cooling gas
When the plasma inside a fusion system starts to misbehave, it needs to be quickly cooled to prevent damage to the device.
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How Researchers Found a Greener Way to Make Fuel for Nuclear Fusion—By Accident
Researchers have found an environmentally safer way to extract the lithium 6 needed to create fuel for nuclear fusion ...
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Gas injection setup in new fusion system is guided by public-private research
Researchers have determined that six gas valves provide the best protection against plasma disruptions in SPARC, a next-generation, experimental fusion system. By refining the setup for the fusion ...
Scientists Were Cleaning Dirty Water – Then They Accidentally Solved a Fusion Energy Problem
Scientists have discovered a mercury-free method to isolate lithium-6, a vital ingredient in nuclear fusion fuel. The breakthrough emerged by accident during water purification research and uses a ...
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Scientists eye self-repairing material to protect fusion reactors from heat damage
PSI, a linear plasma generator that allows us to study plasma-wall interactions in a fusion reactor,” said the DIFF ...
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12-year-old US boy builds nuclear fusion reactor, gets visit from FBI
Jackson Oswalt, a 12-year-old teen from Memphis, US, built a nuclear fusion reactor in his bedroom and made a Guinness World ...
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Fusion data centre launched in California
US-based General Atomics (GA) and the University of California San Diego are collaborating to establish a Fusion Data Science ...
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Small nuclear reactors face US demand boom
HOUSTON: Everyone from the US energy secretary to Big Tech touts small modular nuclear reactors as a potential answer to booming power demand, but the technology is struggling to become commercial ...
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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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B.C.’s General Fusion achieves world’s first plasma in steam-driven reactor
General Fusion has successfully achieved first plasma in its Lawson Machine 26 (LM26), marking a significant milestone in its pursuit of practical fusion energy. The Richmond, B.C.-based company’s ...
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Pulsar Fusion unveils nuclear fusion rocket concept for space travel
The Sunbird nuclear fusion rocket concept has the potential to more than halve the time to travel to Mars and cut travel time to Pluto to about four years, the UK's Pulsar Fusion says. The concept ...