Sentences with phrase «in fusion fuel»

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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.

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.

Spallation as a dominant source of pusher - fuel and hot - spot mix in inertial confinement fusion capsules

Using multiple secondary fusion products to evaluate fuel rho R, electron temperature, and mix in deuterium - filled implosions at the NIF

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.

We don't need to create a new star in order know that they are fueled by nuclear fusion.

If you can find a way to prove to me that fusion doesn't fuel the sun, I can change my scientific belief structure, that is what allows me to say I live in reality while you float in the clouds with your invisible friend.

PANCAKES have been getting in the way of nuclear fusion: the process comes unstuck when fuel pellets end up spread out flat.

By harnessing energy from the sun — «this handy fusion reactor in the sky,» he called it last night — getting enough renewable energy on the power grid and smoothing out energy generation and use between peak and off - peak hours, the nation and planet can shift away from fossil fuels» dominance as a power source, he told the crowd.

The new capability, developed by physicist Mario Podestà at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), outfits the code known as TRANSP with a subprogram that simulates the motion that leads to the loss of energetic ions caused by instabilities in the plasma that fuels fusion reactions.

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.

The shot represents a milepost in an effort to get past the break - even point - ignition - in coaxing fusion energy from a tiny frozen fuel pellet

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.

A 10-fold increase in temperature would bring them into the realm of sparking reactions in conventional fusion fuel, a mixture of the hydrogen isotopes deuterium and tritium, known as D - T.

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).

Sandia's MagLIF technique is similar to NIF's in that it rapidly crushes its fuel — a process known as inertial confinement fusion.

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.

Experiments with actual fusion fuel — a mix of the hydrogen isotopes deuterium and tritium — began in the early 1990s in the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) in Princeton, US, and the Joint European Torus (JET) in Culham, UK.

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.

NIF uses the world's highest energy laser to crush peppercorn - sized targets filled with fusion fuel (a combination of hydrogen isotopes) to a temperature and pressure greater than in the core of the sun.

In some fusion experiments, a fuel of two different forms of hydrogen is surrounded by a plastic layer that reaches conditions similar to the interior of planets during a short - lived compression stage.

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).

600 Million Amount of hydrogen fuel, in tons, that the sun converts to helium and energy through nuclear fusion every second.

Laser fusion is an alternative to magnetically confined fusion, in which a superheated plasma of fusion fuel is suspended in a reactor called a tokamak.

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.

There is no longer any question of its scientific feasibility: near breakeven (the state at which the fusion power produced equals the power consumed to sustain the plasma) has been demonstrated with actual fusion fuels in Princeton's nearly 20 - year - old Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR).

If there's some fusion path, if there's some solar fuels path in a — Nate Lewis's problem is not a deployment problem; his problem is a basic research, generosity, materials understanding.

What's more, the helium nuclei generated during the experimental runs are colliding with fuel in the pellet, sparking further fusion reactions.

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.

Scientists at NIF are seeking to produce fusion by imploding hydrogen fuel capsules with the world's most powerful laser beams in a process called inertial confinement.

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.

In inertial confinement fusion (ICF) reactions, the mixing induced by the RM instability (created by a converging shock wave on the fuel - shell interface) can contaminate fuel and impair fusion yield.

The PPPL code, called XGC, simulates behavior of the ions, electrons and neutral atoms in the transport barrier region — or «pedestal» — between the ultra-hot core of the plasma that fuels fusion reactions and the cooler and turbulent outer edge of the plasma.

The promise of fusion eliminates the need to burn fossil fuels, accumulate greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, warm the Earth, and worry about nuclear waste — instead, providing clean energy that uses ordinary seawater as a fuel.

The concept uses a laser to heat fusion fuel contained in a small cylinder as it is compressed by the huge magnetic field of Sandia's massive Z accelerator.

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.»

The cause, according to a theory advanced by PPPL physicist David Gates and colleagues at the Laboratory, lies in the tendency of bubble - like islands that form in the plasma that fuels fusion reactions to shed heat and grow exponentially — a runaway growth that disrupts the crucial current that completes the magnetic field that holds the plasma together.

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.

Stellarators are fusion devices that use twisting, potato chip - shaped magnetic coils to confine the plasma that fuels fusion reactions in a three - dimensional and steady - state magnetic field.

Originally proposed in a 2010 Sandia theoretical paper, the concept uses a laser to heat fusion fuel contained in a small cylinder (called a liner) as it is compressed by the huge magnetic field of Sandia's massive Z accelerator.

The findings, reported in the journal Physical Review Letters, involve the formation of plasmoids in the hot, charged plasma gas that fuels fusion reactions.

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.

In the direct - drive method of inertial confinement fusion, laser beams directly strike the fuel pellet.

In addition, integrated experiments where some of OMEGA's lasers are used to actually compress the liner itself, as well as the heated and magnetized fusion fuel it contains, are also part of the ARPA - E program.

The other major approach to controlled fusion is inertial confinement, in which a fuel capsule is hit by energetic «driver» beams from all directions, causing it to implode and then ignite in a miniature thermonuclar explosion.

Together they have revolutionized a key instrument in the quest to harness fusion energy — a device called an X-ray crystal spectrometer that is used around the world to reveal strikingly detailed information about the hot, charged plasma gas that fuels fusion reactions.

ARPA's bet, and Sandia's and Rochester's with it, is that a more efficient coupling of the laser energy to the fusion fuel would increase the number of neutrons produced, and that number is the gold standard in judging the efficiency of the fusion reaction.

All stars, including our sun, will eventually run out of the hydrogen gas that fuels the nuclear fusion reactions in their cores.

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