Category: Energy Nuclear

‘We were blown away’ – researchers eliminate obstacle to fusion energy | Inhabitat – Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

Fusion powers the sun, and if we could harness it here on Earth, we could obtain unlimited clean energy. Scientists have been working on that >>>

Posted: November 15, 2017 in Energy, Nuclear

Under pressure: New world record set on path to nuclear fusion

Researchers at MIT have just passed an important milestone on the long path to a fusion future, placing plasma under what they say is the >>>

Posted: October 16, 2016 in Energy, Nuclear

Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough: MIT Experiments Help Reveal Source of Heat Loss

  Experiments have now revealed that interactions of differing turbulence might bridge that gap between model and reality. Source: Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough: MIT Experiments Help >>>

Posted: February 15, 2016 in Energy, Nuclear

China’s nuclear fusion machine just smashed Germany’s hydrogen plasma record

Source: China’s nuclear fusion machine just smashed Germany’s hydrogen plasma record

Posted: February 8, 2016 in Energy, Nuclear

X-ray breakthrough ‘opens door’ to controlled nuclear fusion (Wired UK)

Scientists have for the first time been able to monitor the flow of energy during fast ignition, a process that it hoped to be capable >>>

Posted: January 18, 2016 in Energy, Nuclear

A small, modular, efficient fusion plant | MIT News

New design could finally help to bring the long-sought power source closer to reality. Source: A small, modular, efficient fusion plant | MIT News

Posted: December 31, 2015 in Energy, Nuclear, Physics

Nuclear fusion breakthrough achieved with stellarator machine

GERMAN scientists say they have reached a milestone in a quest to derive energy from nuclear fusion, billed as a potentially limitless, safe and cheap >>>

Posted: December 16, 2015 in Energy, Nuclear

The first plasma: the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device is now in operation

Start of operation and first plasma in the Wendelstein 7-X fusion research device at IPP Greifswald Source: The first plasma: the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device >>>

Posted: December 10, 2015 in Energy, Nuclear

Breakthrough in fusion energy

  Physicists have achieved a breakthrough in fusion power, by containing superheated hydrogen plasma for five milliseconds, longer than any other effort before. Source: Breakthrough >>>

Posted: September 9, 2015 in Energy, Nuclear

Scientists make breakthrough in understanding how to control intense heat bursts in fusion experiments

Scientists make breakthrough in understanding how to control intense heat bursts in fusion experiments.

Posted: March 15, 2015 in Energy, Nuclear