The giant magnet of the world’s largest reactor
The total magnetic energy of the magnet system used for the ITER nuclear fusion reactor reaches up to 41 gigajoules, which is 250,000 times stronger than the Earth's magnetic field.ITER, ...
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Finding the Key to Overcome the Biggest Barrier to Creating Infinite Clean Energy
Scientists pursuing fusion energy have announced that they have found the key to addressing one of the greatest challenges to date.According to CNN, for decades, nuclear fusion has been hailed ...
The U.S. plans to build its first nuclear fusion power plant
The fusion power plant promises to generate more energy than a nuclear fission plant without producing radioactive waste.Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in California, USA. (Photo: David Butow).The U.S. government hopes to ...
The Largest “Atomic Bombs” in the Universe
A supernova is an explosion that releases an enormous amount of energy and brightness, outshining entire galaxies containing hundreds of billions of stars.Astronomers Walter Baade and Fritz Zwicky coined the ...
The Moment the Fusion Reactor Forms Plasma
Tokamak Energy Shares Images from Inside the Tokamak Reactor as It Heats Up to 100 Million Degrees Celsius and Produces Plasma.Image: Tokamak EnergyTokamak Energy, a commercial fusion energy company based ...
The giant gun that can produce nuclear fusion energy
First Light Fusion is testing a 22-meter-long gun that can simulate the fusion reactions occurring in the cores of stars.The Big Friendly Gun (BFG) is a prototype of the technology ...
