Sentences with phrase «controlled nuclear fusion»

Controlled nuclear fusion is a dream for scientists and advocates of clean energy.

Controlled nuclear fusion has been an aim of scientists ever since they discovered that the fusion of hydrogen to helium power the Sun and most stars.

The library focuses on materials in support of PPPL's research in the fields of plasma physics and controlled nuclear fusion.

Even if we finally achieve the dream of controlled nuclear fusion on Earth, it will carry an environmental cost

Their aim is to gain a better understanding of thermonuclear reactions and, ultimately, how controlled nuclear fusion, which has proved remarkably elusive so far, could provide an alternative source of electrical energy.

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Attempts at nuclear fusion are not part of some biological adaptive «survival of the fittest» process but show our transcendence of a merely material law of control and direction.

Soon we will be able to control the health and perhaps the genetic makeup of children with the aid of genetic screening, genetic engineering, nuclear transplantation, egg fusion, cloning, selective abortion and in utero fetal surgery.

Even though a supporter of nuclear power, Charpak was one of three signatories to an editorial in the French daily Libération in August that called for a halt to the building of the experimental fusion reactor ITER in the south of France because the cost of the project has running out of control and the plant will be «unusable.»

The control of nuclear fusion — the reaction that powers stars and hydrogen bombs — would permanently solve the world's energy problems, not to mention a few geopolitical ones.

At a United Nations atomic energy conference held in Geneva in 1955, an Indian nuclear physicist named Homi Bhabha said, «I venture to predict that a method will be found for liberating fusion energy in a controlled manner within the next two decades.

Researchers from the US and China have made progress in their joint collaboration on the use of lithium to control plasma within experimental nuclear fusion reactors.

He also chairs the board of editors of Nuclear Fusion, a monthly journal devoted to controlled fusion energy.

As the principal associate director, Wisoff will continue to be responsible for ensuring the safe operation of NIF as a world - class user facility in support of the National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) Stockpile Stewardship mission; partnering with Laboratory capabilities to establish leadership in Stockpile Stewardship science associated with inertial confinement fusion and high energy density physics; overseeing the development of advanced laser systems, related optical and target systems, control systems and systems engineering capability for research, commercial and government agencies; and maintaining close partnerships with the Department of Energy / NNSA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Missile Defense Agency, Department of Homeland Security, academia and private industry.

However, to expand sentient life into the rest of our solar system and beyond, be it our species or a bioengineered enhanced version of homo sapiens or be it sentient robotic AI life or a hybrid of any of that, we need to master and control fusion nuclear.