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ITER Nuclear Fusion Project: First Burn Delayed until 2035
Guest essay by Eric Worrall A new ITER Nuclear Fusion timetable has been agreed, which slips the first scheduled Deuterium / Tritium burn to 2035 – 8 years after the original scheduled date. But an...
View ArticleClaim: Brexit an “Existential Threat” to Advanced Nuclear Fusion Research
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Professor Ian Chapman, chief of the UK Atomic Energy Authority is worried the Brexit negotiation standoff between Britain and the EU poses a threat to the vast multi-decade,...
View ArticleRenewables Advocates Trash Talk Nuclear Fusion
Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to renewables advocates, renewables will soon be so cheap it won’t be worth pouring more money into researching nuclear fusion. Renewable Energy Threatens the...
View ArticleLaser-boron fusion now ‘leading contender’ for energy
From the UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES and the “coming to a power plant near you in 30 to 50 years” department A laser-driven technique for creating fusion that dispenses with the need for radioactive...
View ArticleMIT tries to reboot stalled nuclear fusion power development
From MIT and the “always 15 years away” department. MIT and newly formed company launch novel approach to fusion power – Goal is for research to produce a working pilot plant within 15 years. Progress...
View ArticleThe bright light of nuclear fusion might burn away climate doomsters’ fears
By Larry Kummer. From the Fabius Maximus website. Summary: News from the frontiers of science, where the future is being built and the predictions of doomsters will be defeated. Also, see the last...
View ArticleMIT continues progress toward practical fusion energy
From the “we are this close to nuclear fusion department, 7th decade edition” and MIT: In series of talks, researchers describe major effort to address climate change through carbon-free power. A year...
View ArticleBehold the mayo: Experiments reveal ‘instability threshold’ of...
Rayleigh-Taylor-instability experiments confirm that the instability of elastic-plastic material is a function of initial conditions, such as amplitude and wavelength; characterization could apply to...
View ArticleKorean artificial sun, KSTAR, sets the new world record of 20-sec-long...
The Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research(KSTAR), a superconducting fusion device also known as the Korean artificial sun, set the new world record as it succeeded in maintaining the high...
View ArticleEU Turns to Magic to Progress their Clean Energy Agenda
The European Union is so desperate for their clean energy push to yield a viable solution, they have just given €3,999,870 to a cold fusion research team.
View ArticleBottling the world’s coldest plasma
Laser-cooled plasma-in-a-bottle could answer questions about the sun, fusion power RICE UNIVERSITY Research News HOUSTON – (March 1, 2021) – Rice University physicists have discovered a way to trap the…
View ArticleGeneral Atomics to ship world’s most powerful magnet to ITER global fusion...
San Diego, June 15 - After a decade of design and fabrication, General Atomics is ready to ship the first module of the Central Solenoid, the world's most powerful magnet. It will become a central...
View ArticleFutile fusion research
Is there hope for commercially viable fusion power? Yes, because other “magnetic bottles” and fusion fuel cycles exist. The related physics is much more difficult, but we won’t know if any of these...
View ArticleLawrence Livermore Claims a Near Break Even Nuclear Fusion Burn
Inertial confinement fusion researchers have claimed a near break even experimental nuclear fusion burn, in which energy produced by the fusion reaction was comparable to the energy injected to...
View ArticleWorld Economic Forum: Hydrogen Boron Nuclear Fusion Anticipated by 2030
Are greens replacing fantasies of energy sources which don't work, with fantasies of energy sources which don't exist? The post World Economic Forum: Hydrogen Boron Nuclear Fusion Anticipated by 2030...
View ArticleNational Ignition Facility Exceeds Break Even Nuclear Fusion
An American first on a par with the historical significance of the moon landing - scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have exceeded fusion break even. The post National Ignition...
View ArticleDOE Offers $33 Million to Fund a Credible AI Fusion Proposal
So the DOE is offering money to AI researchers, in the hope that the magic of AI can help make the magic of nuclear fusion a reality. The post DOE Offers $33 Million to Fund a Credible AI Fusion...
View ArticleSurprise: The Gigantic International ITER Fusion Project “May Be Delayed by...
The 2025 planned date to create a plasma has been set back for "months, even years". The post Surprise: The Gigantic International ITER Fusion Project “May Be Delayed by Years” first appeared on Watts...
View ArticleITER Fusion Energy Project: ‘Record-setting Disaster’
With each passing decade, this record-breaking monument to big international science looks less and less like a cathedral—and more like a mausoleum. The post ITER Fusion Energy Project: ‘Record-setting...
View ArticleNuclear (Con)fusion: Why the Gee-Whizz Factor Costs so Much
By Macskelek - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Like all gee-whiz moonbeams-to-cucumbers notions, this granddaddy of them all is irremediably failing, at prodigious cost to us all. The post Nuclear (Con)fusion:...
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