German engineers from the Max Planck Institute successfully activated the experimental
nuclear fusion reactor used in the research last December and successfully managed to suspend plasma for the first time.
Not exact matches
(All existing
reactors operate
using nuclear fission, rather than
fusion, which is a very different process.)
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.
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.
Researchers from the US and China have made progress in their joint collaboration on the
use of lithium to control plasma within experimental
nuclear fusion reactors.
SCIENTISTS at the University of Huddersfield have been
using world - class new facilities to carry out experiments that could aid the development of
nuclear fusion reactors, widely regarded as the «Holy Grail» solution to future energy needs.
Hopefully the political economics will allow
use of the gas resource as a transition fuel to renewables and
nuclear power,
fusion or advanced
reactors.