Sentences with phrase «of fusion power»

Indeed, the dream of fusion power now seems certain to neither die or remain merely a dream.
This of course was all abandoned towards the end of the twenty first century what with the ice and as the use of fusion power generation slowly extended around the globe.
To produce practical amounts of fusion power on earth, heavy forms of hydrogen are joined together at high temperature with an accompanying production of heat energy.
The potential cost of fusion power was not an issue.
Many outstanding people turned to the pursuit of fusion power.
Many researchers harbor dreams of fusion power plants fueling the 21st century.
«His winning the Fusion Technology Award is especially appropriate since the development of fusion power systems will require individuals with a keen understanding of both the technological implications and the underlying physics.
In the past 15 years, research in the U.S. and other countries has increased by 10,000,000 times the fusion power level produced in experiments, and we have now achieved production of 10 megawatts of fusion power on the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor at Princeton.
Kessel heads a nationwide study that will detail options for the FNSF and consider its role in relation to ITER, the international experiment under construction in France to demonstrate the feasibility of fusion power.
That's when the facility achieved a world - record 6.3 million watts of fusion power with a 50 - 50 mix of deuterium and tritium.
However, reaching that goal will be a very expensive, long - term commitment — and it's also very possible that we may never achieve a commercially viable method of fusion power generation.
They are proceeding in parallel with the single most important experiment for the future of fusion power, the $ 12 billion International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor.
The research at IPP's Garching, Greifswald, and Berlin branches concerns the physical basis of a fusion power plant.
But in April, Jim Bailey and his team at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque announced that their experimental device, called the Z - machine, had successfully unleashed a brief burst of fusion power.
JET marked a key step in international collaboration, and in 1991 achieved the world's first controlled release of fusion power.
I find the frequent puffing of the fusion power dream very depressing (15 February, p 11).
Although even their optimistic scenario puts the first demonstration reactor of this elusive source of cheap energy at least three decades away, the proposition has encouraged civilian proponents of fusion power to back the military establishment's case for the giant laser.
It will also demonstrate the technology required for the core of a fusion power plant and the systems needed for extracting power from the device.
The MIT - CFS collaboration aims to build a compact device capable of generating 100 MW of fusion power, which will demonstrate «technical milestones» needed to achieve a full - scale prototype fusion power plant.
Achieving success in ITER will not lead immediately to the building of fusion power plants; another step, usually called DEMO (DEMOnstration fusion power plant) will be necessary.
The mastery of the physics is not yet sufficient to enable the construction of a fusion power plant, which requires cutting - edge technologies like superconductivity, high vacuum, and cryogenics.
That will certainly be a calamity for the people involved and for the cause of fusion power.
American Security Project's Fusion White Paper outlines a plan on how to accelerate the development of fusion power in the United -LSB-...]
«The dream of fusion power now seems certain to neither die or remain merely a dream.»
He initially performed both neutronics — the study of neutrons that emerge from plasmas — and plasma control calculations for the design of the Burning Plasma Experiment (BPX), a fusion facility that was targeted to produce about 100 - 500 megawatts of fusion power, which at a minimum would equal the heating power but was hoped to exceed it.
PPPL is also a key contributor to ITER, the huge international experiment that is under construction in France to demonstrate the feasibility of fusion power.
ASP's White Paper provides a detailed plan on how to accelerate the development of fusion power.
While a significant amount of fusion power was produced by JET, and TFTR, exceptionally long - duration fusion was achieved in the Tore Supra tokamak, a EURATOM - CEA installation located at France's Cadarache nuclear research centre and later in the TRIAM - 1M tokamak in Japan and other fusion machines.
In June of 1994, TFTR would generate headlines worldwide when it produced 10.7 million watts of fusion power, Synakowski said.
Avoiding or mitigating such disruptions, which occur when heat or electric current are suddenly reduced during fusion experiments, will be crucial for ITER the international experiment under construction in France to demonstrate the feasibility of fusion power.
The next major experimental step in magnetic fusion is ITER — the international experiment that will generate 500 megawatts of fusion power, at a physical scale of a power plant.
The hype accompanying the Lockheed announcement of its fusion power development distorted the potential benefits of fusion power.
ASP's White Paper, «Fusion Power — A 10 Year Plan for American Energy Security» provides a detailed plan on how to accelerate the development of fusion power.
-LSB-...] Fusion White Paper 2014 — 10 Year Plan For American Energy Security ASP's White Paper, «Fusion Power — A 10 Year Plan for American Energy Security» provides a detailed plan on how to accelerate the development of fusion power.
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