Fusion power research gets a boost
5 years, 4 months ago

Fusion power research gets a boost

The Hindu  

THE British government has announced the allotment of £220 million over the next four years towards the design of a commercially viable fusion power station called the Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production. It will also use the tokamak technology that forms the basis of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor project coming up in Cadarache, France, as also fusion power’s predecessor plants such as the JET in the United Kingdom. The “spherical” tokamak technology is currently being pioneered at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy of the U.K. Atomic Energy Authority. “Nuclear fusion has the potential to be an unlimited clean, safe and carbon-free energy source and we want the first commercially viable machine to be in the U.K.” The investment is expected to come up with an integrated design that will form the basis for a plant capable of generating hundreds of megawatts of net electrical energy that would be up and running by the early 2040s.

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Nuclear fusion breakthrough overcomes key barrier to limitless clean energy
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Nuclear fusion breakthrough overcomes key barrier to limitless clean energy

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Two of the key barriers to producing power from nuclear fusion have been …

Scientists achieve nuclear fusion breakthrough for a second time
1 year, 7 months ago

Scientists achieve nuclear fusion breakthrough for a second time

The Telegraph  

A nuclear fusion experiment that takes scientists one step closer to creating endless clean energy has been repeated by experts in the United States, proving their previous success was not a one-off. ‘Rival technologies’ Scientists working at the Livermore laboratory announced last year that they had made more energy from fusion than was required to start the process. British experts …

Fusion power is coming back into fashion
1 year, 9 months ago

Fusion power is coming back into fashion

Hindustan Times  

On January 12th Oxfordshire County Council, in England, gave the go-ahead for a new building near the village of Culham. Un peu d’histoire The idea of harnessing the process that powers the sun goes back almost as far as the discovery, in the 1920s and 1930s, of what that process is—namely the fusion of protons, the nuclei of hydrogen atoms, …

Nuclear fusion breakthrough: 'Holy grail' of power production is closer to reality
1 year, 9 months ago

Nuclear fusion breakthrough: 'Holy grail' of power production is closer to reality

Daily Mail  

For years, nuclear scientists have tried to replicate the fusion process that takes place in billions of stars to create clean power on Earth. The spherical tokamak uses a powerful magnetic field to confine hydrogen isotopes into a spherical shape, similar to a cored apple, as they are heated by microwaves into a plasma to produce fusion - and clean …

Fusion power is coming back into fashion
2 years ago

Fusion power is coming back into fashion

The Economist  

Listen to this story. Un peu d’histoire The idea of harnessing the process that powers the sun goes back almost as far as the discovery, in the 1920s and 1930s, of what that process is—namely the fusion of protons, the nuclei of hydrogen atoms, to form helium nuclei, also known as alpha particles. The usual approach—that taken by General Fusion, …

Major step towards ‘holy grail’ of energy production made with Oxfordshire reactor plans
2 years, 1 month ago

Major step towards ‘holy grail’ of energy production made with Oxfordshire reactor plans

The Telegraph  

The Government is backing plans to build a new prototype nuclear fusion reactor in Oxford as it steps up efforts to crack the “holy grail” of energy production. Tokamak Energy will develop its cutting-edge reactor at the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s fusion centre near Oxford, helping it access the authority’s expertise and facilities. Chris Kelsall, chief executive of Tokamak Energy, …

Nuclear fusion energy breakthrough: a skeptic’s caveats.
2 years, 3 months ago

Nuclear fusion energy breakthrough: a skeptic’s caveats.

Slate  

To hear it from government researchers, a long-sought, frustratingly elusive, potentially world-shifting clean-energy milestone was finally reached this week: On Tuesday morning, the National Ignition Facility, or NIF, part of the California-based Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, declared that it had achieved “fusion ignition,” which an official Department of Energy announcement described as “a major scientific breakthrough decades in the making …

Nuclear fusion breakthrough as ‘ignition’ finally achieved
2 years, 7 months ago

Nuclear fusion breakthrough as ‘ignition’ finally achieved

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The experiment in fusion power, conducted by the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in …

Fusion reactors could provide much more power than previously thought, study suggests
2 years, 9 months ago

Fusion reactors could provide much more power than previously thought, study suggests

The Independent  

Scientists have revised a fundamental law “foundational” to fusion energy research that could allow for more hydrogen fuel in reactors, and potentially help obtain more energy from fusion than previously thought. “In order to create plasma for fusion, you have to consider three things: high temperature, high density of hydrogen fuel, and good confinement,” Paolo Ricci, a co-author of the …

Oxford scientists leap ahead in race to harness nuclear fusion
2 years, 10 months ago

Oxford scientists leap ahead in race to harness nuclear fusion

The Telegraph  

Otto Asunta smiles as he traces the patches of light and dark displayed on the screen in front of him, revealing the outlines of the plasma he and his team have bent the earth’s natural forces to create. The potential for abundant, clean energy from this nuclear fusion process means it has long been considered something of a holy grail, …

The JET nuclear fusion project makes a game-changing breakthrough
3 years ago

The JET nuclear fusion project makes a game-changing breakthrough

The Hindu  

AT any point of time since around the 1950s, we have heard scientists telling us that our ability to tap nuclear fusion, the process that powers the burning and shining of the sun and other stars, as a source of limitless, clean and safe energy is at least another 50 years away. In August last, the National Ignition Facility of …

Nuclear fusion breakthrough opens door to clean and near limitless energy
3 years, 1 month ago

Nuclear fusion breakthrough opens door to clean and near limitless energy

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The UK-based JET reactor, located in Oxford, produced 59 megajoules of energy during a five-second …

Britain's 'artificial sun' nuclear fusion reactor sets a new world record
3 years, 1 month ago

Britain's 'artificial sun' nuclear fusion reactor sets a new world record

Daily Mail  

It is seen as the holy grail of energy and could lead to the creation of dozens of 'tiny suns' here on Earth. Britain has been one of the leading players in the field ever since the Joint European Torus was built on an industrial estate outside Oxford in 1978 — and now it has achieved a new world record …

Scientists break through major milestone in harnessing fusion energy
3 years, 1 month ago

Scientists break through major milestone in harnessing fusion energy

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Scientists have made a major stride towards turning fusion energy into a viable …

The UK’s quest for affordable fusion by 2040
4 years, 3 months ago

The UK’s quest for affordable fusion by 2040

BBC  

The UK’s quest for affordable fusion by 2040 UAEA Step reactor cutaway For decades, fusion has been the alchemy of our technological age. Clement Mahoudeau/AFP/Getty Images The Iter reactor's first assembly stage was launched earlier this year For decades, we have been promised that commercial fusion power plants will exist within 30 years. Meanwhile, the Iter fusion reactor in France …

The British reality TV star building a fusion reactor
7 years, 11 months ago

The British reality TV star building a fusion reactor

BBC  

The British reality TV star building a fusion reactor David Parker/Science Photo Library Harnessing power from fusion – a process shown in this rendering of the reactor at Iter – has remained frustratingly out of reach Successfully producing energy from fusion always has been a moonshot – but it is one that investors, including an unlikely millionaire celebrity, say they …

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