This Fusion Fuel Experiment Will Bring Us One Step Closer to Ignition
Scientists are about to test the fuel that will eventually power the world's largest nuclear fusion experiment, ITER. If all goes well, we'll be one step closer to the goal of generating limitless energy.
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If you’re new to the world of nuclear fusion, welcome to the decades-long waiting party. See, nuclear fission is what most of us are more familiar with: it’s when atoms are split apart to create huge amounts of energy.
But fusion is the fusing of two atoms, which releases an energy yield several times greater than fission. Almost all fusion experiments work specifically on fusing hydrogen atoms to form helium. And that’s the big dream of fusion ignition—it would produce a limitless supply of clean energy.
But as you can imagine, heating hydrogen plasmas to 150 million degrees Celsius and then compressing and confining them down into states of matter even more extreme than what’s at the center of the Sun is...kinda hard. There are private and nationally-funded facilities all over the world working toward this...and that’s where ITER comes in.
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Fuel for world’s largest fusion reactor ITER is set for test run
https://media.nature.com/original/magazine-assets/d41586-021-00408-1/d41586-021-00408-1.pdf
"In June, JET will begin fusing even quantities of tritium and deuterium, another isotope of hydrogen. It is this fuel mix that ITER will use in its attempt to create more power from a fusion reaction than is put in — something that has never before been demonstrated."
What is nuclear fusion and could it change the world?
https://youtu.be/HdOjOzfD5EE
"Nuclear fusion occurs at the centre of the sun but scientists hope that one day we will be able to harness this energy on Earth too."
ITER Celebrates Milestone, Still at Least a Decade Away From Fusing Atoms
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/energy/nuclear/iter-fusion-reactor
"The idea for ITER was sparked back in 1985, at the Geneva Superpower Summit, where President Reagan and General Secretary Gorbachev spoke of an international collaboration to develop fusion energy."
Image credit: EUROfusion
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If you’re new to the world of nuclear fusion, welcome to the decades-long waiting party. See, nuclear fission is what most of us are more familiar with: it’s when atoms are split apart to create huge amounts of energy.
But fusion is the fusing of two atoms, which releases an energy yield several times greater than fission. Almost all fusion experiments work specifically on fusing hydrogen atoms to form helium. And that’s the big dream of fusion ignition—it would produce a limitless supply of clean energy.
But as you can imagine, heating hydrogen plasmas to 150 million degrees Celsius and then compressing and confining them down into states of matter even more extreme than what’s at the center of the Sun is...kinda hard. There are private and nationally-funded facilities all over the world working toward this...and that’s where ITER comes in.
#fusion #sustainability #cleanenergy #nuclearfusion #ITER #seeker #science #elements
Read More:
Fuel for world’s largest fusion reactor ITER is set for test run
https://media.nature.com/original/magazine-assets/d41586-021-00408-1/d41586-021-00408-1.pdf
"In June, JET will begin fusing even quantities of tritium and deuterium, another isotope of hydrogen. It is this fuel mix that ITER will use in its attempt to create more power from a fusion reaction than is put in — something that has never before been demonstrated."
What is nuclear fusion and could it change the world?
https://youtu.be/HdOjOzfD5EE
"Nuclear fusion occurs at the centre of the sun but scientists hope that one day we will be able to harness this energy on Earth too."
ITER Celebrates Milestone, Still at Least a Decade Away From Fusing Atoms
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/energy/nuclear/iter-fusion-reactor
"The idea for ITER was sparked back in 1985, at the Geneva Superpower Summit, where President Reagan and General Secretary Gorbachev spoke of an international collaboration to develop fusion energy."
Image credit: EUROfusion
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