ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) is the world's largest
experimental nuclear fusion reactor in southern France which aims to deliver nuclear fusion on a commercial scale, offering safe, limitless and environmentally responsible energy.
An unexpected pattern has been glimpsed in the turbulent solar wind, offering clues for handling plasmas that roil
inside nuclear fusion reactors on Earth
The future of the global effort to build a
workable nuclear fusion reactor hangs in the balance after officials failed last week to choose between proposed sites in France and Japan.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA Take a tour of the National Ignition Facility, a huge
new nuclear fusion reactor.
The short overloaded the equipment with 18 million amps, delaying for a few months the initial test of technology that could yield the world's first commercially
viable nuclear fusion reactor.
As the international ITER project to develop an experimental
nuclear fusion reactor eats into research budgets around the world, an advisory panel to the US Department of Energy recommends mothballing at least one of three major experiments and focusing on research necessary to bring ITER online.
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.
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.
In 1948, George Washington University graduate student Ralph Alpher and his adviser, physicist George Gamow, theorized that over the course of its first few minutes, the universe was so hot and dense that it behaved like
a nuclear fusion reactor, cooking the primordial soup of protons and neutrons into heavier atomic nuclei: deuterium or «heavy hydrogen» (one proton and one neutron), helium (two and two), and lithium (three and four).
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.
The experimental
nuclear fusion reactor being built at Cadarache in the south of France hopes to harness fusion reaction to generate energy.