Fusion reactor

Plasma is a partially or fully ionized gas. Ionized gas contains free electrons and ions which carry electric charges. Thus, plasma is subject to electromagnetic forces and can react to external electric and magnetic fields. Moreover, since plasma contains free charge carriers, their relative motion can also set internal electric and magnetic fields, which in turn also influence their dynamics. In addition, plasma is subject to other forces typical for gases, such as gravity or pressure…

The Tokomak reactor hit 15 million degrees Celcius (59m°F) during a test at a facility in Oxfordshire as part of preparations to hook it up to the UK's energy grid by 2030.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) is among the winners of a 2024 Edison Patent Award from the Research & Development Council of New Jersey for the invention of the planar coil stellarator, a device that eliminates the twisty coils of previous stellarator designs.The invention replaces those twisty coil

The massive doughnut-shaped device, which has been dubbed 'Korea's artificial sun' ran at 100 million°C (180 million°F) for 48 seconds.

EPFL started up a variable-configuration tokamak reactor in 1992. Today, EPFL is a leading research institute in nuclear fusion, with the goal of replicating on Earth the reactions taking place in the stars. Long before the energy crisis and the alarm bells on climate change, EPFL was already loo

Although different isotopes of light elements can be paired to achieve fusion, the deuterium-tritium (DT) reaction has been identified as the most efficient for fusion devices. ITER and future devices will use the hydrogen www-definition-5*250*hardisotopes deuterium and tritium to fuel the fusion reaction. Deuterium can be distilled from all forms of water. It is a widely available, harmless, and virtually inexhaustible resource. In every cubic metre of seawater, for example, there are 33…

Lockheed Martin is working on a compact fusion reactor that could be small enough to provide a power source for aircraft, and it could be ready to fly in 10 years or less, the company said on Wednesday.

A private nuclear fusion company has heated a plasma of hydrogen gas to 15 million degrees Kelvin (15 million degrees Celsius or 27 million degrees Fahrenheit) in a new reactor for the first time — hotter than the core of the sun, and a landmark on the co

It could be 2030 before the reactor being built in France starts making more energy than it uses. Meanwhile, China is investing heavily in its own project