Sentences with phrase «nuclear fusion power»

But I sincerely hope it does cross them — or, against all the odds and the known physics, we can develop nuclear fusion power — because, being a cautious (and precautious) chap, I like insurance.

Unfortunately, no - one has ever built a nuclear fusion power station that is anything near profitable, in spite of many billions of dollars being spent on the effort over the last half - century.

Each of these spinning magnetic storms is the size of Europe, and together they may be pumping enough energy into the solar atmosphere to heat it to millions of degrees — a power that leads one scientist to suggest we could mimic these solar tornadoes on Earth in the quest for nuclear fusion power.

NIF has three purposes: To further our basic understanding of stars, to determine how the United States» aging nuclear weapons are holding up without engaging in underground testing, and to explore the enormous potential of nuclear fusion power plants.

The million - degree nuclear fusion powering a million - mile - wide star a million light - years away is a million snores to Time magazine's science editor, Jeffrey Kluger.

Not exact matches

Nuclear fusion, which powers our sun, could soon power our civilization, too.

Similar to the nuclear fusion process that powers our sun.

Among the moon's vast riches: gold, cobalt, iron, palladium, platinum, tungsten and helium - 3, a gas that can be used in future fusion reactors to provide nuclear power without radioactive waste.

This radioactive isotope of hydrogen is only manufactured in nuclear power plants and would cost any fusion generator $ 100 million per week.

In the coming series of posts, I'll introduce you to scientists who believe fusion is on par with the development of nuclear power or sending men to the moon, and scientists who think these experiments are a dead - end.

I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source.

If electricity use continues to double every nine years, huge amounts of power will have to come from 500 years» worth of coal supplies and lots of nuclear power plants — by this time possibly breeder or fusion plants.

I believe that the sun is powered by the nuclear fusion of hydrogen in to helium, because the spectrum of the emitted light is exactly as predicted by theory and tested by experiment on earth.

There are also schemes to power electrical thrusters with nuclear fission — which, unlike fusion, is something we know how to do today.

Yet they are too light to ignite the nuclear fusion that powers stars.

Nuclear fusion is the energy source that powers the sun; if channeled correctly, it could become a major source of clean energy here on Earth.

This is especially important for formulating fusion and new kinds of fission nuclear power plants.

Brown dwarfs are a strange class of celestial object that have masses so low that their cores never become hot enough to sustain nuclear fusion, which powers stars.

Stars are powered by nuclear fusion, converting hydrogen into helium in their cores.

And if we can do that, there might be nothing stopping us from unlocking nuclear fusion, a theoretically limitless source of clean, safe power that could solve all our climate woes.

Contracting woes may cause further delays for $ 19.4 - billion ITER, a project designed to show the feasibility of nuclear fusion as a power source

One of the most exciting ideas proposed by Freese is that the universe's first stars were powered not by nuclear fusion, but by the annihilation of dark matter particles.

Nuclear fusion, the process that powers our sun, happens when nuclear reactions between light elements produce heavieNuclear fusion, the process that powers our sun, happens when nuclear reactions between light elements produce heavienuclear reactions between light elements produce heavier ones.

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.

For decades scientists have sought to generate clean energy by instigating the kind of sustained nuclear fusion reactions that power the sun.

They are abundantly produced in supernova explosions, star - powering nuclear fusion and other nuclear processes, resulting in trillions of neutrinos passing through us every minute.

Lockheed Martin Corp said on Wednesday it had made a technological breakthrough in developing a power source based on nuclear fusion, and the first reactors, small enough to fit on the back of a truck, could be ready in a decade.

Nuclear fusion is the process that powers the sun and stars.

When the head of the Atomic Energy Commission at the time, Lewis Strauss, infamously quipped in 1954 that electricity would become «too cheap to meter,» he was likely referring to nuclear fusion, not nuclear fission, the atom - splitting reaction that powers conventional nuclear power plants today.

A $ 12 billion worldwide attempt to generate power from nuclear fusion was signed into existence today by ministers from the project's seven international partners — China, the European Union, India, Japan, Korea, Russia, and the United States.

Nuclear power — including fusion — is not the long - term answer to our energy problems.

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).

ITER seeks to demonstrate that nuclear fusion — the power source of the sun and stars — can be tamed on Earth to generate electricity.

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.»

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.

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.

Unlike the waste from conventional nuclear power plants, which remains radioactive for tens of thousands of years, the by - products of fusion decay within decades.

Because energy is required to power these chemical transformations, there is less available to raise the temperatures inside the bubble to the intensity required for nuclear fusion to occur.

Scientists have long dreamed of harnessing nuclear fusion — the power plant of the stars — for a safe, clean and virtually unlimited energy supply.

Some scientists propose creating power sources and electricity by igniting fusion reactions with lasers that trigger nuclear fission that can consume spent nuclear fuel.

«Scientists have long dreamed of harnessing nuclear fusion, the power plant of the star, for a safe, clean and virtually unlimited energy supply.

At the ITER project in Cadarache, France, scientists are trying to generate power from nuclear fusion, which requires heating plasma to many millions of degrees.

You quote physicist Thomas Klinger saying that lack of progress on nuclear fusion for power generation is simply down to a lack of funding (13 May, p 38).

For example, the plasmas used in laboratories and nuclear fusion plants decay within milliseconds of the power being switched off.

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.

nuclear power Energy derived from processes that produce heat by splitting apart the nuclei of atoms (fission) or forcing atomic nuclei to merge (fusion).

At Sandia National Laboratory, Myers works on the Z machine, the world's most powerful pulsed - power facility and x-ray generator, which produces high energy density plasmas that are used to study fusion and the physics of nuclear weapons.

Objects heavier than 70 Jupiter masses are not cold enough to be brown dwarfs, implying that they are all stars powered by nuclear fusion.

The nuclear fusion that powers stars generates tremendous amounts of energy.

This mechanism provided ages of the Sun that were much smaller than what is observed in the geologic record, and was rendered obsolete by the discovery that stars are powered by nuclear fusion.