the science behind fusion energy
UCSD Physics Dept Tom Murphy Ah, fusion. Long promised, both on Do the Math and in real life, fusion is regarded as the ultimate power source—the holy grail—the “arrival” of the human species. Talk of fusion conjures visions of green fields and rainbows and bunny rabbits…and a unicorn too, I hear. But I strike too … Read more
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Princeton, NJ 08543-0451 GPS: 100 Stellarator Road Princeton, NJ 08540 U.S.A. +1-609 243-2000 http://www.pppl.gov/ Lawrence Livermore National Labs National Ignition Facility (NIF) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 7000 East Avenue • Livermore, CA 94550 https://lasers.llnl.gov/ Los Alamos National Laboratory Take from Company Index Sandia National Laboratories Z Pulsed Power Facility http://www.sandia.gov/z-machine/ MIT … Read more
Duke Energy Nuclear Information Center Inside the sun, fusion reactions take place at very high temperatures and enormous gravitational pressures The foundation of nuclear energy is harnessing the power of atoms. Both fission and fusion are nuclear processes by which atoms are altered to create energy, but what is the difference between the two? Simply … Read more
Fusion Start-up Companies First Light Fusion First Light Fusion Ltd Unit 10 Oxford Industrial Park, Mead Road,Yarnton,Oxfordshire,OX5 1QU Telephone +44(0)1865 807670 enquiries@firstlightfusion.com Energy Matter Conversion Corporation (EMC2) Polywell 9155 Brown Deer Road Suite 4 San Diego, CA 92121-2260 +1-858-202-6900 Jaeyoung Park, Ph.D., Chief Scientists http://www.emc2fusion.org/ Company Information & Scientific Papers at “Inertial Electrostatic Confinement” Tri … Read more
Seattle Times Rachel Lerman July 7, 2015 Redmond-based Helion Energy has raised $10.6 million, according to a filing, to build a fusion engine that would create power. Helion Energy has raised $10.6 million in a new funding round to develop technology that aims to create a fusion reactor to generate power. The company disclosed the … Read more
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Our energy future depends on nuclear fusion, says Michel Laberge. In a lab near Vancouver, Michel and his team are building a prototype fusion reactor that mimics the processes of the sun to produce cheap, clean and abundant energy. Michel … Read more
The fifth International Conference on Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications (IFSA2007) IOP Publishing ________________ Journal of Physics: Conference Series 112 (2008) 042084 doi:10.1088/1742-6596/112/4/042084 Y. C. Francis Thio U. S. Department of Energy, Office of Fusion Energy Sciences, Germantown, MD, USA E-mail: Francis.thio@science.doe.gov Abstract. A status report of the current U.S. program in magneto-inertial fusion (MIF) … Read more
South China Morning Post Stephen Chen 17 July, 2015 China’s proposed hybrid nuclear fusion-fission reactor could potentially burn nuclear waste. Photo: AFP China will build a new hybrid reactor that can burn nuclear waste via a combined fusion-fission method by 2030. This could give a potentially dramatic boost to China’s attempt to switch to more … Read more
Development of Practical Fusion Power; Plasma Jet Driven Magneto-Inertial Fusion introduction by T.D. Tamarkin; scientific contributors, S. C. Hsu, Ph.D., T. J. Awe, Ph.D., S. Brockington, Ph.D., A. Case, Ph.D., J. T. Cassibry, Ph.D., G. Kagan, Ph.D., S. J. Messer, Ph.D., M. Stanic, X. Tang, Ph.D., D. R. Welch, Ph.D., and F. D. Witherspoon, Ph.D. … Read more
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