Sentences with phrase «fusing hydrogen isotopes»
At the end of January, experiments will begin with hydrogen in an effort to show that fusing hydrogen isotopes can be a viable source of clean and virtually limitless energy.
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Mainstream fusion power schemes fuse hydrogen isotopes called deuterium and tritium to make helium nuclei, releasing large amounts of energy in the process.
Not exact matches
In Helion's approach to fusion, lightweight isotopes such as hydrogen or helium can be fused under intense heat and pressure.
A fusion power plant, on the other hand, will generate energy by fusing atoms of deuterium and tritium, two isotopes of hydrogen — the lightest element.
The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) is a multinational collaboration that represents one of the world's largest attempts to fuse deuterium and tritium, two heavy isotopes of hydrogen.
Under laboratory conditions it is the two hydrogen isotopes — deuterium and tritium — that fuse most readily when held as a plasma at temperatures of several hundred million degrees.
Fusion reactors heat and squeeze a plasma — an ionized gas — composed of the hydrogen isotopes deuterium and tritium, compressing the isotopes until their nuclei overcome their mutual repulsion and fuse together.
Most fusion research focuses on magnetic confinement, using powerful electromagnets to contain a thin plasma of hydrogen isotopes and heat it until the nuclei fuse.
The aim of ITER is to show that, in theory, nuclei of deuterium and tritium (isotopes of hydrogen) can be fused in a searingly hot plasma at the heart of the reactor, thereby releasing large quantities of heat that could be used to generate power.
When completed in 2018, the reactor will fuse together two heavy isotopes of hydrogen to release vast quantities of energy.
At that instant - theory says but experiments have yet to achieve - the hydrogen isotope atoms inside the target would fuse to become helium and release more energy in a trillionth of a second than it took to produce the blast in the first place.