Nuclear Fusion

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Leosphere windcube project Energy plays a key role in global efforts to promote sustainable development, to improve living standards and to secure a …
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White dwarf start unexpectedly emitting bright ‘supersoft’ X-rays
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The discovery of a white dwarf star emitting supersoft X-rays calls into question the conventional wisdom about how X-rays are produced by dying …
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Meet the renegades building a nuclear fusion reactor in your neighbourhood
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After a short journey, I’ve arrived at a bland industrial park just outside Abingdon in Oxfordshire. It’s populated by retailers of kitchen units and …
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Nuclear Energy
Advancement in nuclear fusion tech continues transition to clean energy future
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The development of unlimited, carbon-neutral, and safe energy through nuclear fusion is expanding around the world, and scientists at the Atomic …
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New discovery complicates efforts to measure universe's expansion
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A study led by Texas Tech University shows that supersoft X-ray emissions can come from accretion as well as nuclear fusion. For decades, astronomers …
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Researchers just overcame a key barrier to fusion power
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Fusion Cuisine One promising approach to nuclear power is a type of reactor called a tokamak, which uses powerful magnetic fields to trap super-heated …
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Nuclear Energy
New exhaust system brings fusion energy one step closer |
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Researchers trying to commercialise nuclear fusion believe they've solved one of the most pressing problems of generating energy like the a star, how to exhaust gas at temperatures hotter than our sun,
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'Pokémon: Let's Go's Fake Poké Ball Science Is Absolutely Terrifying
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And totally impossible. Since its inception, Pokémon has always focused on the core idea of “Pocket Monsters,” but it’s never really been clear how …
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The Sun Wouldn’t Shine Without Quantum Physics
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If particles weren’t also waves, the Sun would never achieve nuclear fusion. Without quantum mechanics, life on Earth would never have come to …
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Scientists Get Serious About Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions
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It's been a big year for low-energy nuclear reactions. LENRs, as they're known, are a fringe research topic that some physicists think could explain …
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Scientists in the U.S. and Japan Get Serious About Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions
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Nuclear Energy
A nuclear fusion reactor just set several world records
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You Down With IPP? A team of scientists determined to “fetch the Sun’s fire to Earth” just got closer to achieving their lofty goal. From July through …
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Nuclear fusion reactor in Germany sets multiple records towards sustainable energy- Technology News, Firstpost
Firstpost - tech2 News Staff Nov 28, 2018 11:24 AM IST
Nuclear energy reactors are built to mimic the mechanism that stars, including our Sun, use to produce a near-infinite amount of heat and light. It …
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Wendelstein 7-X fusion reactor keeps its cool en route to record-breaking results
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Scientists toiling away on the cutting edge Wendelstein 7-X nuclear fusion reactor in Germany have pulled together results from their latest round of …
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Hubble captures stars across generations
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The large-scale structure of the Universe is made up of voids and filaments, that can be broken down into superclusters, clusters, galaxy groups, and …
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New, Groundbreaking Revelation Brings Us Closer to Nuclear Fusion
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A Theory For Everything Researchers from the U.S. DOE’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Princeton University may have solved the …
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Engineering
Reacting to future needs: nuclear fusion and autonomous vehicles
theengineer.co.uk - By Stuart Nathan
Fusion research is leading to spin-off technology that could make autonomous vehicles a reality in a shorter time frame. Stuart Nathan reports. Nuclear …
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The Secrets of Neutrinos, One of the Strangest Particles in the Known Universe
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Brian Koberlein is bringing the story of science to the world. His Kickstarter project — a television series called Big Science — recently garnered …
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Cold War
A Star in a Jar: Fusion Power and Limitless Energy Explained
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Fusion energy is an energy source that sounds almost too good to be true: unlimited energy that could be powered by the likes of seawater, with no …
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China’s Built An Artificial Sun In A Bid To Turnaround Climate Change
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China's got a thing about controlling the weather. The country is quite literally able to 'seed' clouds to bring on or prevent rainfall, and now it …
Nuclear Energy
OMEGA Laser Could Produce Nuclear Fusion at 5 Times Current Levels
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Laser Fusion Nuclear fusion is one of the Holy Grails of energy research. However, developments in this particular field have been more like baby …
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Hotter than the sun: Chinese fusion reactor claims breakthrough
Digital Trends - Dyllan Furness
China’s “artificial sun” has reached a temperature of 180 million ºF with a heating power of 10 megawatts, according to scientists at the Chinese …
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China’s ‘artificial sun’ galaxies away from solving Earth’s energy needs, scientist says
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Chinese scientists announced this week that a nuclear fusion reactor in the southeast of the country had achieved a temperature exceeding 100 million …
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China's 'artificial sun' was briefly the hottest spot in our solar system
Mother Nature Network - Michael d'Estries
The nuclear fusion machine surpassed 100 million degrees Celsius. It appears that the light of the moon isn't the only thing China is interested in …
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China’s ‘artificial sun’ achieves major breakthrough
The Telegraph
The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (East) in Hefei has reached a temperature of 100 million degrees C for the first time China’s “artificial sun” has for the first time achieved a plasma
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Nuclear Energy
How 'miniature suns' could provide cheap, clean energy
BBC News - By Emma Woollacott
We're just five years away from harnessing almost unlimited power from "miniature suns", some start-ups say: nuclear fusion reactors that could provide abundant, cheap and clean energy. In a world of warming
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How 'miniature suns' could provide cheap, clean energy - BBC News
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Getty Images Our sun is a huge nuclear fusion reactor. Can we mimic its energy-making process on earth? We're just five years away from harnessing almost unlimited power from "miniature suns", some start-ups
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China’s artificial sun reaches fusion temperature: 100 million degrees
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• The EAST reactor was able to heat hydrogen to temperatures exceeding 100 million degrees Celsius. • Nuclear fusion could someday provide the planet with …
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"Chinese artificial sun" pushes past 100 million degrees - Xinhua
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HEFEI, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) -- The experimental advanced superconducting tokamak (EAST), or the "Chinese artificial sun," achieved an electron …
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The Future
Fusion breakthrough as China's "artificial sun" reaches 100 million degrees
newatlas.com - David Szondy
The day of clean, limitless energy from nuclear fusion has taken another step closer thanks to China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak …