Fusion Breakthrough: 6 Minutes of Plasma Sets New Reactor Record
May 7, 2024 · Scientists at New Jersey's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, who collaborated on the project, announced today that the device created a super-hot material called a plasma that reached 90 million degrees Fahrenheit (50 million degrees Celsius) for 6 straight minutes.
World's largest nuclear fusion reactor is finally completed. But it …
Jul 3, 2024 · Scientists have been trying to harness the power of nuclear fusion — the process by which stars burn — for more than 70 years.
‘World’s first’ grid-scale nuclear fusion power plant ... - CNN
Dec 18, 2024 · If all goes to plan, Virginia will be the site of the world’s first grid-scale nuclear fusion power plant, able to harness this futuristic clean power and generate electricity from it by the ...
Nuclear fusion: Scientists just set a new energy record in a step ... - CNN
Feb 8, 2024 · Scientists and engineers near the English city of Oxford have set a nuclear fusion energy record, they announced Thursday, bringing the clean, futuristic power source another step closer to...
Nuclear fusion could one day be a viable clean energy source
2 days ago · Nuclear fusion could one day be a viable clean energy source – but big engineering challenges stand in the way George R. Tynan, University of California, San Diego and Farhat Beg, University of ...
Nuclear fusion: new record brings dream of clean energy closer - BBC
Feb 8, 2024 · Nuclear fusion has produced more energy than ever before in an experiment, bringing the world a step closer to the dream of limitless, clean power.
Live updates: Nuclear fusion reaction breakthrough | CNN
Dec 13, 2022 · Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility have made history by successfully producing a nuclear fusion reaction resulting in a net energy gain, a...
Here’s how scientists reached nuclear fusion ... - Science News
Feb 16, 2024 · In the experiment, 192 lasers blasted a small chamber, setting off fusion reactions — in which smaller atomic nuclei merge to form larger ones — that released more energy than initially kicked...
US nuclear-fusion lab enters new era: achieving ‘ignition ... - Nature
Dec 15, 2023 · In December 2022, after more than a decade of effort and frustration, scientists at the US National Ignition Facility (NIF) announced that they had set a world record by producing a fusion...
Two seconds of hope for fusion power - Ars Technica
May 3, 2024 · Using nuclear fusion, the process that powers the stars, to produce electricity on Earth has famously been 30 years away for more than 70 years. But now, a breakthrough experiment done at the...