Sentences with phrase «fuel for fusion»

The basic fuel for fusion is deuterium, a form of hydrogen easily separated from ordinary seawater.

Helium - 3 is the much - touted fuel for fusion power plants.

Helium 3 resourced from the Moon could provide a much cleaner fuel for fusion power.

JET researchers are testing how the machine behaves when filled with individual hydrogen isotopes before attempting burns with deuterium and tritium — the fuel for fusion — in 2019.

For example, Vogt says that the General Fusion reactor must run on a constant stream of tritium, the fuel for the fusion reaction.

He spent nearly a decade in the corporate world building high - end printers, not, it should be pointed out, manipulating plasma fuel for fusion experiments.

Not exact matches

It is building on the concept of compressing fuel to heat it until it triggers a fusion reaction, an idea experimented with for years in large - scale government programs.

It is a possible fuel for nuclear fusion that could solve energy demand on Earth for 10,000 years, at least.

Image: NIF Scientists with the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced today that they have achieved a critical step in fusion research: For the first time, their hydrogen fuel has given off more energy than it took in.

Other goals include increased funding for nuclear weapons research; increased research on nanotechnology; space station, moon, and Mars projects at NASA; work on hydrogen fuels; and support for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) fusion project.

A key hurdle for fusion researchers is understanding turbulence, the ripples and eddies that can cause the superhot plasma that fuels fusion reactions to leak heat and particles and keep fusion from taking place.

Chandrayaan - 2 will collect data on the moon's thin envelope of plasma, as well as isotopes such as helium - 3, a potential fuel for future fusion energy reactors.

Considering there are so few options for solving the world's growing energy needs in a sustainable way, fusion energy is incredibly exciting since it takes its fuel from ordinary seawater,» says Linnea Hesslow.

A new experiment releases more energy than is pumped into fuel — a major milestone — but a long journey still remains for sustainable energy from fusion

Sam Bell, played by Sam Rockwell, toils alone in a stark - white base, working as a glorified handyman for Lunar Industries, an ominously glossy corporation that extracts helium - 3 from the lunar surface to fuel fusion reactors back on Earth.

We will mine it for a valuable fuel which will make fusion power possible at last.

Concerns about global warming and oil's imminent demise have caused scientists and policy - makers to look for solutions in both the future and the past: to new technologies such as nuclear fusion, multijunction photovoltaics, and fuel cells — and to traditional energy sources such as water power, wind power, and (sustainable) biomass cultivation (coupled with clean and energy - efficient combustion).

For magnetic fusion energy to fuel future power plants, scientists must find ways to control the interactions that take place between the volatile edge of the plasma and the walls that surround it in fusion facilities.

Researchers have known about this technique of crushing a liner to heat the fusion fuel for some time.

NIF is designed to achieve nuclear fusion by crushing capsules of hydrogen fuel with immensely energetic lasers, both for energy research and to help nuclear weapons designers simulate explosions.

Inertial confinement is an alternative method in which small capsules of hydrogen - isotope fuel are crushed to produce the intense temperature and pressure needed for fusion to occur.

Sandia's dark - horse entry in the fusion race still consumes far more energy than it releases, but that is also true of the more conventional — and more expensive — approaches to fusion, such as bombarding encapsulated fuel with laser light from every direction (as the National Ignition Facility in Livermore, Calif., does) or using giant superconducting magnets to heat levitating plasma for minutes at a time inside a doughnut - shaped chamber (as the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor in France may do when it's completed around 2027).

He is mining helium - 3, fuel for Earth's fusion reactors, aided by Gerty, the base's robot, laconically voiced by Kevin Spacey.

American researchers have shown that prospective magnetic fusion power systems would pose a much lower risk of being used for the production of weapon — usable materials than nuclear fission reactors and their associated fuel cycle.

In a first for laser - driven fusion, scientists at a US lab say they have reached a key milestone called fuel gain: they are producing more energy than the fuel absorbed to start the reaction.

The latter might provide an ideal fuel for nuclear fusion reactors to produce enormous amounts of energy on Earth.

Scientists have debated for years what will happen to our planet when the sun's fusion furnace begins to run out of fuel and swell into a red giant a few billion years from now.

As the star dies, the nuclear fusion reactions stop because the fuel for these reactions gets used up.

When convection occurs in the core region it acts to stir up the helium ashes, thus maintaining the proportion of fuel needed for fusion to occur.

For deep future survival, brown dwarfs represent a large resource of unburnt fusion fuel, either for harvesting slow use, or to light up a new stFor deep future survival, brown dwarfs represent a large resource of unburnt fusion fuel, either for harvesting slow use, or to light up a new stfor harvesting slow use, or to light up a new star.

His design calls for loops of liquid lithium to clean and recycle tritium, a key fusion fuel ingredient, while protecting tokamak components that exhaust waste heat, and cleaning dust and other impurities from the tokamak — all at the same time.

As it happens, scientists at the LLE over many years have developed techniques to «smooth» laser beams, a prerequisite for delivering more energy to fusion fuel.

Brian Wirth, UT - ORNL Governor's Chair for Computational Nuclear Engineering, was nominated by the AAAS section on physics for «advancing knowledge of radiation damage mechanisms and fuel performance in fission and fusion energy via multiscale modeling using high performance computing validated by experiments.»

Some of that material then may contaminate the fuel and increase radiation losses, causing the fuel temperature to collapse below that needed for fusion reactions to occur.»

The 100 kJ is the energy output of a 100 - watt light for about 20 minutes, but in a fusion experiment at NIF, that energy would be released in less than a billionth of a second and enough to bring the fuel a step closer to the ignition conditions.

For fusion energy to fuel future power plants, scientists must find ways to control the interactions that take place between the volatile edge of fusion plasma and the physical walls that surround it in fusion facilities.

For example, the model doesn't consider any possible interaction between the plasma and the containing capsule, and highly energetic turbulence might mix parts of the capsule into the plasma and contaminate the fusion fuel.

He likens using the ego for fuel to burning coal, while inspiration as the result of a more positive drive is more like fusion energy.

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Currently only a tiny speck of hydrogen fuses, and for the laser approach to work, the fusion reactions would have to propagate through the rest of the hydrogen fuel.

The fuel for aneutronic fusion would likely be boron, which is literally as common as mud and about as radioactive as your morning toast.

Two more important solutions that would obviate the need for his list are: switching to limitless energy sources (solar, tidal, geothermal, organic fuel, wind, and even nuclear fission or fusion once we have fusion power); and reducing humanity's growth.

Supply of fuel, however, is not a problem: it seems that water by weight contains roughly 100 to 300 times as much energy as gasoline, for the various fusion reactions that may be feasible «early in the third millenium», as the authors phrase it.

Adopt the risk - management mitigation and adaptation strategies in the IPCC reports, with adequate increased funding for non fossil - fuel energy (solar, wind, geothermal, fusion).

Even fusion — for 50 years the «fuel of the near future» — is attracting large amounts of savvy private capital.

Human civilization can flourish for centuries and millennia on energy delivered from a closed uranium or thorium fuel cycle, or from hydrogen - deuterium fusion.

For fusion, the fuel is two isotopes of hydrogen, deuterium and tritium, the first of which can be extracted from seawater and the second from lithium, whose resources are large and growing.