Sentences with phrase «producing fusion reaction»

Using a different reactor shape than ITER and, eventually, superconducting magnets, the company says it has a cheaper and faster path to an energy - producing fusion reaction.

This approach to fusion differs from experiments on the NSTX - U, which confines low - density plasma in magnetic fields to produce fusion reactions.

But while that motion helps produce the fusion reactions that could power a new class of electricity generator, the turbulence it generates can also limit those reactions.

Not exact matches

That is the fuel that will produce huge multiples of energy from a fusion reaction.

That brings the Burnaby, B.C. company's total money raised to more than $ 54 million, enough to complete its four - year project to demonstrate «net gain» from fusion — a reaction that produces more energy than it consumes.

RADIATION DETECTION EQUIPMENT Prove that you really achieved fusion by using a bubble dosimeter, which provides instant visual verification and measurement of neutrons produced by fusion reactions.

The findings provide the physics - basis for the successful operation of current and future tokamaks that will produce powerful and economical fusion reactions.

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

Fusion energy requires confining high energy particles, both those produced from fusion reactions and others injected by megawatt beams used to heat the plasma to fusion temperatures.

However, the reaction also produces high - energy neutrons, which would damage whatever vessel the fusion reactor is in and render anything around them radioactive.

It now eats up a million times more energy than it makes, but Bailey is optimistic — as fusion researchers always are — that an upgraded reactor, scheduled for completion in 2006, might within a decade permit reactions that produce more energy than they absorb.

Achieving fusion — nuclear reactions that have the potential to produce copious, clean energy — requires heating hydrogen fuel to more than 100 million degrees Celsius, causing it to become an ionized gas or plasma.

«What was significant is that we demonstrated we could produce implosions hot enough and dense enough for a fusion reaction.»

But other, cheaper approaches exist — and one of them may have a chance to be the first to reach «break - even,» a key milestone in which a process produces more energy than needed to trigger the fusion reaction.

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — This week, the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California announced an important milestone on the road to achieving ignition, which could lead to producing controlled fusion reactions here on Earth.

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.

Russia — The country plans to develop a fusion neutron source (FNS), a facility that would produce neutrons, the chief form of energy created by fusion reactions, in preparation for a DEMO.

Nuclear reactions (fission and fusion) produce fast neutrons.

In Adams and Grohs» simulations, stars with enough carbon could sustain a cycle of fusion reactions that produce energy without deuterium.

And compared to the byproducts of nuclear plants, which remain radioactive for thousands of years, the small amount of radioactive material produced in fusion reactions would remain radioactive for tens of years, Synakowski said.

The Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA - E) has announced a two - year, $ 3.8 million award for Sandia National Laboratories and the University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) to study the potential of combining two different technologies to further advance their research efforts to produce controlled fusion reactions.

In a fusion reaction, two atomic nuclei fuse and produce very fast - moving particles.

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.

The nuclei were produced via fusion - evaporation reactions and separated from projectile - like and target - like particles using GARIS - II before being stopped in a helium - filled gas cell.

The goal is to produce a «burning plasma» where the required heat is supplied by the fusion reaction itself.

Experiments like the Alcator C - Mod and JET help scientists and engineers move closer to determining the right conditions and design elements to create a functional, energy - positive fusion reaction that can reliably produce more power than it consumes.