Sentences with phrase «harness nuclear fusion»

Ivanov's story is just one example of the serendipity involved in this small Canadian company's rise to the forefront of a worldwide race to harness nuclear fusion, a race that has been going on fitfully, consuming tens of billions of mostly public dollars, for more than half a century.
On 23 March 1989, two chemists working at the University of Utah, Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann, stunned the world with their claim to have harnessed nuclear fusion — the process that powers the Sun — in a test tube of water at room temperature.
Scientists have long dreamed of harnessing nuclear fusion — the power plant of the stars — for a safe, clean and virtually unlimited energy supply.
«Scientists have long dreamed of harnessing nuclear fusion, the power plant of the star, for a safe, clean and virtually unlimited energy supply.

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As much as harnessing new energy sources like nuclear fusion, it is solving this basic storage problem that could revolutionize our faltering energy supply systems.
THE massive ITER reactor currently being built in southern France is nuclear fusion's great hope — but it won't harness the power of the stars until 2026 at the earliest.
The solution used a new theory based on fluid flow and will help scientists in the quest to create gases with temperatures over a hundred million degrees and harness them to create clean, endless, carbon - free energy with nuclear fusion.
After reading yesterday's post on the brewing fight over funding for nuclear fusion research, Robert L. Hirsch, who directed the country's fusion energy program in the 1970s through the Atomic Energy Commission, got in touch to describe how his views of the prospects of harnessing fusion as a practical energy source have evolved.
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