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National Ignition Facility achieves fusion ignition

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) and DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) announced the achievement of fusion ignition at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). LLNL’s experiment surpassed the fusion threshold by delivering 2.05 LLNL’s experiment surpassed the fusion threshold by delivering 2.05

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PPPL researchers find way to build high-temperature superconducting magnets for fusion devices

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Such powerful magnets would more easily fit within the tight space inside spherical tokamaks, which are shaped more like a cored apple than the doughnut-like shape of conventional tokamaks, and are being explored as a possible design for future fusion power plants. Collage by Kiran Sudarsanan).

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Fusion Fuel awarded €3.6m in grant funding for 1MW green hydrogen mobility project in Portugal

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Fusion Fuel has been awarded €3.6 Fusion Fuel had previously been awarded €36 million in C-5 funding for its “Sines Green Hydrogen Valley Alliance” consortium. The facility will also include an integrated hydrogen refueling station intended to serve light and heavy-duty commercial vehicles. Earlier post.)

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Researchers propose method for eliminating damaging heat bursts in fusion device

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These ELMs can damage the reactor walls and must be controlled to develop reliable fusion power. Scientists have learned to tame these ELMs by applying spiraling rippled magnetic fields to the surface of the plasma that fuels fusion reactions.

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Momentary Fusion Breakthroughs Face Hard Reality

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The dream of fusion power inched closer to reality in December 2022, when researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) revealed that a fusion reaction had produced more energy than what was required to kick-start it. It showed there’s nothing fundamentally limiting us from being able to harness fusion in the laboratory.”

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General Fusion Takes Aim at Practical Fusion Power

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It might be time to retire that overused joke about nuclear fusion always being 30 years away. Burnaby, British Columbia-based General Fusion plans to build a large-scale demonstration reactor at the UK's national fusion research laboratory campus in Culham near Oxford. This compresses the plasma and forces a fusion reaction.

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NASA’s New Shortcut to Fusion Power

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And scientists and engineers have continued to study the sun’s fusion process in hopes of one day using nuclear fusion to generate heat or electricity. Consequently, governments, universities, and companies have long looked to fusion to remedy these ills. But the prospect of meeting our energy needs this way remains elusive.

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