nuclear fusion
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Nuclear Fusion Machine Smashes Energy Record, Clean Energy Now ‘Closer Than Ever’
A UK-based nuclear fusion collaboration just produced a record amount of energy, a refreshing dose of good news in humankind’s quest for cleaner energy sources. The Joint European Torus facility, or JET, produced just over 69 megajoules of heat. A brief distillation of nuclear fusion: It is a reaction by which atomic nuclei fuse, turning…
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Nuclear Fusion Scientists Successfully Recreate Net Energy Gain
While the U.S. Department of Energy announced a successful test in December, July’s experiment reportedly produced even more energy.
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The Marathon Race Toward Fusion Power Could Be Reaching a Sprint
In September, a very large, incredibly powerful magnet was unloaded in Saint-Paul-lez-Durance in Southern France to be incorporated into the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), a major international collaboration that is attempting to prove the economic and technical feasibility of nuclear fusion.
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Why Nuclear Fusion Reactors Won’t Blow Up
Video: Nuclear fusion holds promise as a safe, clean source of energy to power our future. We’re probably decades away from using fusion as a viable source of energy, but some experimental reactors are already online.