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How buried nuclear fuel, and how long is it dangerous
Until then, until we learn to get energy out of fusion reaction, the most effective and economical method of its production will be nuclear power plant. Only they can provide a huge amount of energy with minimum fuel consumption. ...
What is a tokamak? Just about a fusion reactor
Can you imagine a world in which not need extra energy sources? A world where you will not need to think about how to save energy. It will be, if not free, then very cheap. Now imagine the Sun that every second produces as much en...
In the UK want to build the world's first fusion power plant
will it have scientists to create a fusion setup? the Possibility of creating fusion power plants, scientists and engineers from around the world discussing for quite some time. And the possibility of building such a facility is n...
Google was unable to confirm the existence of cold fusion
Spending years on research and experiments and invested a considerable amount of money in this enterprise the company has not any proof that nuclear fusion can be carried out at room temperature. However, investments in the amount...
New, safe nuclear reactors can halt climate change, but they are afraid to build
In 2018, scientists reported harsh news: despite concerns about global warming due to coal it produced 38% of world's electricity in 2017 — that is, exactly the same as when the first alarming warnings about the climate 20 years a...
13-year-old Jackson Oswalt became the youngest person to build a fusion reactor
In the world of science there is a new contender for the title of young nuclear physicist, has attained a thermonuclear fusion reaction. It is a 13-year-old boy named Jackson Oswalt, living in Tennessee (). While his peers, which ...
We need more powerful nuclear engines to explore space. The production of plutonium-238 is growing
last year, "Voyager 2" finally broke through to interstellar space, having more than 18 billion kilometers. This epic mission was possible thanks to nuclear energy technology which spacecraft worked for decades. The spacecraft, si...
Scientists have found a way to harness the energy of thermonuclear fusion
One of the most promising areas in the nuclear power industry is the type of rector, called a tokamak. It uses a very powerful magnetic field, which inside the special toroidal chamber (in the form of a hollow donut) is trapped by...
Chinese tokamak plasma heated to 100 million degrees Celsius
using the experimental advanced superconducting tokamak (EAST), which is called Chinese "artificial sun", the physicists were able to heat plasma to 100 million degrees Celsius (which is 6 times hotter than the core of our star) a...
Discovered bacteria that can destroy nuclear waste
One of the main problems of using radioactive fuel is dumping its exhaust waste. Moreover, the risk to the environment is not so much the material as the migration of radionuclides in soil and air. But recently a group of Russian...
Japanese scientists have approached the use of fusion energy
for a long time scientists are trying to create conditions for implementing a sustainable controlled thermonuclear fusion reaction. However, the production of such a reactor may cause many difficulties and even the most ambitious ...
Russian scientists have modeled the behavior of metals in a fusion reactor.
a few days ago we reported that in Russia will be created the first time , but work will need special materials, and, as it became known, the domestic specialists have developed a technology that allows real-time monitoring of how...
Create a hybrid fusion reactor
Despite the rapid development of alternative energy sources, one of the most beneficial types of energy is still nuclear energy. Therefore, not surprising that in this area there are a lot of developments. For example, it was rece...
Lockheed Martin has patented a compact fusion reactor
While the world is watching in the garden Facebook , Lockheed Martin quietly gives the patent associated with the design of the potentially revolutionary compact fusion reactor, he's CFR. If the project will be developed on schedu...
A new startup from MIT set out to run a fusion reactor in 15 years. Seriously?
one well-Known anecdote: nuclear fusion is twenty years. Always will be in twenty years. The joke is now no longer funny, grew out of the optimism of scientists who in the 1950-ies (and in each subsequent decade) thought that nucl...
At MIT found a way to harness the energy of stars
Nuclear energy – the dream of scientists and energy companies may soon become a reality. Of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of technology (MIT) and the Commonwealth Fusion Systems has declared readiness to create a working ...
Scientists wanted to classify the discovery of the "quark fusion"
In the image below, you can see the mushroom cloud from the explosion of ivy Mike in 1952, the first thermonuclear fusion bomb ever exploded. In the process of fusion and fission of nuclei is allocated a colossal amount of energy,...
In the UK successfully launched an experimental fusion reactor
In Britain last week launched a new experimental fusion reactor ST40. The system has already generated the "first plasma". The ultimate goal: to heat the plasma inside the tokamak to a temperature of 100 million degrees Celsius, w...
How does it work? | Nuclear power
In today's issue of the scientific-educational programs «How does it work?» we'll talk about nuclear power plants: fission, fuel rods, reactor performance, and much more. Pleasant viewing! ...