Interesting Engineering on MSN9h
China’s nuclear plasma device creates powerful particles to fuel ‘Artificial Sun’
Chinese scientists have unveiled a superconducting linear plasma device designed to test materials for nuclear fusion ...
Mission fusion: 3 Indian startups working on clean and unlimited energy through nuclear fusion
Indian startups Pranos, Anubal Fusion, and Hylenr are advancing efforts in nuclear fusion by exploring different ...
Scientists ‘surf’ plasma waves to tame nuclear eruptions in fusion reactors
A breakthrough in fusion research shows that controlling ELMs is key to achieving stable and efficient fusion reactors.
Nuclear fusion could one day be a viable clean energy source – but big engineering challenges stand in the way
(THE CONVERSATION) The way scientists think about fusion changed forever in 2022, when what some called the experiment of the century demonstrated for the first time that fusion can be a viable source ...
Techno-Science on MSN15d
The first commercial nuclear fusion power plant by 2030?âš¡
In the state of Virginia, what appears to be an ordinary industrial site could soon become the center of a global energy ...
POWER Magazine17d
NRC Approves Construction of First Electricity-Producing Gen IV Reactor in the U.S.
The site will also host the proposed single 35-MWth Hermes 1 test reactor, a non-nuclear engineering test unit, and potentially a Kairos Power fuel fabrication facility. Construction on Hermes 1 ...
Military.com17d
How Jimmy Carter Saved a Canadian Nuclear Reactor After a Meltdown
Though he started his naval career aboard diesel electric submarines, Lt. Carter began working with the Naval Reactors Branch of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission -- the Navy's nuclear submarine ...
GitHub17d
nuclear-fusion
Bluemira is an integrated inter-disciplinary design tool for future fusion reactors. It incorporates several modules, some of which rely on other codes, to carry out a range of typical conceptual ...
The Oak Ridger19d
Electricity produced through fusion could be available by 2040, Oak Ridge theorist says
Heavy hydrogen atoms known as deuterium – the fusion reactor fuel – are abundant in ordinary water, a limitless source of fuel. The most potent deuterium-tritium fusion reactions are possible only if ...
Euronews20d
Inside the world's first nuclear reactor that will power Earth using the same energy as the Sun
The challenge with fusion, Coblentz stresses, is that these nuclear reactors remain extremely difficult to build. "You try to take something up to 150 million degrees. You try to make it the scale ...
The Globe and Mail20d
As construction of first small modular reactor looms, prospective buyers wait for the final tally
The race to construct Canada’s first new nuclear power reactor in 40 years seems to have passed a point of no return. This summer, Ontario Power Generation completed regrading the site for its ...
Knoxville News Sentinel21d
Why 2024 was huge for East Tennessee's nuclear industry, as US seeks more independence
Georgia Power, though late and overbudget, celebrated in 2024 the completion of the first new nuclear reactors built in ... chooses Bull Run coal plant for fusion research In February, months ...