Sentences with phrase «with nuclear fusion»

I get the impression you are mixing up the «hydrogen economy» with nuclear fusion.

The solution used a new theory based on fluid flow and will help scientists in the quest to create gases with temperatures over a hundred million degrees and harness them to create clean, endless, carbon - free energy with nuclear fusion.

In fact, some of the more promising technologies involved with nuclear fusion research use magnetic fields to contain plasmas.

With no nuclear fusion to sustain them, they collapse into Earth - size balls of tightly bound carbon and oxygen nuclei with an outer layer of hydrogen plasma (disrupted atoms).

Some believe that with nuclear fusion unlimited sources of energy will be ours and that we can chemically alter the earth's matter so as to replace exhausted resources with others.

Not exact matches

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.

The bulk of the session, in which Musk shared the stage with Y Combinator head Sam Altman, was far - ranging and bizarre, twisting from nuclear fusion versus fission to Mars colonization.

Soon we will be able to control the health and perhaps the genetic makeup of children with the aid of genetic screening, genetic engineering, nuclear transplantation, egg fusion, cloning, selective abortion and in utero fetal surgery.

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

This imploding shock wave can compress the interior of the bubble's contents even more; indeed, William C. Moss and his colleagues at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have obtained theoretical estimates of the temperatures achievable with an imploding shock wave, and these values approach those required for nuclear fusion.

Their mass is too small for full nuclear fusion of hydrogen to helium (with a consequent release of energy) to take place, but they are usually significantly more massive than planets.

An international team of astronomers has identified a record breaking brown dwarf (a star too small for nuclear fusion) with the «purest» composition and the highest mass yet known.

► Iran's agreement on Tuesday to «dismantle large pieces of its nuclear program in exchange for lifting crippling economic sanctions... paves the way for a rapid expansion of scientific cooperation with Iran in areas as diverse as fusion, astrophysics, and cancer therapy using radioisotopes,» Richard Stone wrote that day at ScienceInsider.

The new role is needed, Moses says, so that Atherton can coordinate with scientists in the three major user communities that NIF serves: nuclear weapons researchers involved in maintaining the U.S. stockpile, fusion energy researchers, and basic scientists working with materials and in other fields.

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).

NIF is designed to achieve nuclear fusion by crushing capsules of hydrogen fuel with immensely energetic lasers, both for energy research and to help nuclear weapons designers simulate explosions.

Nuclear fusion seems like the perfect solution, with virtually limitless supplies of fuel, no greenhouse gases, and little radioactive waste.

The scientists, Nicole King and Arielle Woznica of the University of California, Berkeley, with collaborators Jon Clardy and J.P. Gerdt at Harvard Medical School in Boston, discovered that within minutes after exposure to a chonodroitin sulfate (CS) lyase produced by V. fischeri, S. rosetta cells aggregate into mass mating swarms, entering into cell and nuclear fusion while duplicating and recombining their genetic material.

So, coming within hours of the Exxon Valdez oil disaster, and with the nuclear catastrophe of Chernobyl still fresh in people's minds, the sudden possibility of «cold fusion» captured everyone's attention.

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.

This model describes three types of forces: electromagnetic interactions, which cause all phenomena associated with electric and magnetic fields and the spectrum of electromagnetic radiation; strong interactions, which bind atomic nuclei; and the weak nuclear force, which governs beta decay — a form of natural radioactivity — and hydrogen fusion, the source of the sun's energy.

The ability to accurately determine the rate of this H - 17O fusion reaction provides nuclear physicists with another key puzzle piece, alongside direct observations of oxygen elemental and isotopic abundances in stellar atmospheres and in primitive meteorites, to zero in on complete and accurate models of stars.

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

Princeton University, which manages the nuclear fusion lab under a contract with DOE, has agreed to return $ 1 million to the department and has ended the subsidies.

Long before descending into scientific infamy, Hoyle made what should have been a lasting contribution with a 1954 Astrophysical Journal paper laying out a process by which stars heavier than 10 suns would burn hydrogen and helium at their cores into heavier elements through a progressively hotter series of nuclear fusion reactions.

In a world with increasing energy demand nuclear fusion can play a role as it has the potential to be a sustainable and powerful electricity source free of CO2 emissions.

Changes in replication, nuclear location, and expression of the Igh locus after fusion of a Pre-B cell line with a T cell line.

As a star that has evolved out of the «main sequence,» Gacrux has shifted fully from the fusion of hydrogen to helium at its core to the fusion of helium to carbon and oxygen, with trace activity of other nuclear processes.

Additionally, by engineering FP fusions associated with cellular organelles, scientists have been able to study many cellular processes, including mitosis, mitochondrial fission / fusion, nuclear import, and neuronal trafficking.

This is the stuff nuclear weapons designers deal with, as well as with inertial confinement fusion.

Somatic cells can be reprogrammed either by nuclear transfer into oocytes or by fusion with embryonic stem (ES) cells.

LLNL Distinguished Scientist Omar Hurricane, chief scientist for the Laboratory's Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) program, is at the forefront of the drive to achieve nuclear fusion with energy gain for the first time in a laboratory.

As a star that has evolved out of the «main sequence,» Arcturus has fully shifted from the fusion of hydrogen to helium in at its core to the fusion of helium to carbon and oxygen, with trace activity of other nuclear processes.

«We've shown that the direct - drive method, is on par with other work being done in advancing nuclear fusion research,» said Bose.

Within the Sun's core, nuclear fusion reactions take place, with hydrogen nuclei being fused into helium nuclei.

As a star that has evolved out of the «main sequence,» Pollux has fully shifted from the fusion of hydrogen to helium at its core to the fusion of helium to carbon and oxygen, with trace activity of other nuclear processes.

Methods to reprogram primate somatic cells to a pluripotent state include somatic cell nuclear transfer [2], somatic cell fusion with pluripotent stem cells [3] and direct reprogramming to produce induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs)[4]--[10].

As the principal associate director, Wisoff will continue to be responsible for ensuring the safe operation of NIF as a world - class user facility in support of the National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) Stockpile Stewardship mission; partnering with Laboratory capabilities to establish leadership in Stockpile Stewardship science associated with inertial confinement fusion and high energy density physics; overseeing the development of advanced laser systems, related optical and target systems, control systems and systems engineering capability for research, commercial and government agencies; and maintaining close partnerships with the Department of Energy / NNSA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Missile Defense Agency, Department of Homeland Security, academia and private industry.

When a failed nuclear fusion experiment results in an explosion that kills his wife, Dr. Otto Octavius (Alfred Molina) is transformed into Dr. Octopus, a cyborg with deadly metal tentacles.

If students reveal in an interest inventory that they enjoy working with digital media, leverage that interest in a science class by using new media to build content literacy — for example, what about Einstein's greatest hits playlist, a digital story about nuclear fusion, a video game that simulates a chemical reaction, or a web page that illustrates the formation of the earth?

«Everyone walked around with this little tricorder, and the 15 - year - old was doing nuclear fusion.

The extra content will add four new multiplayer maps, including Core, set in a nuclear fusion plant in the Gobi desert; Urban, a small rooftop map located in Dallas; Sideshow, an abandoned motel decorated with clowns; and Drift, a ski resort in the Rocky mountains, complete with a timed avalanche.

So we have nuclear fusion, photoelectric conversion, electrochemical conversion, and mechanical work — all with zero emissions.

But with advanced nuclear power, such as LFTR or LENR or any one of 15 other safe fusion and fission schemes, we can solve it.

Remember «cold fusion» that was going to produce cheap energy from heavy water by nuclear fusion with just two simple electrodes and some electricity?

Sorry, in this post Fukushima period of fear, I forgot to mention nuclear power as one of the alternate solutions, including fast breeder technology with thorium to reduce the nuclear waste problem and (longer term) nuclear fusion.

What does nuclear fusion have to do with climate dynamics?

Taylor Wilson, is known as the boy who played with fusion, because at the age of 14 became the 32nd individual on the planet to achieve a nuclear - fusion reaction.

Moniz also said that in the U.S., there are almost 50 companies with private - sector funding that are developing new nuclear fission and nuclear fusion technologies.

The state leads the world in developing fuel from sunlight and in the prospect of using fusion to produce safe energy without producing a large problem with nuclear waste.