World's First Nuclear Fusion Power Plant Being Built in Virginia
A company aims to bring a nuclear fusion plant online in the early 2030s, but the path to this breakthrough is anything but easy.
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US scientist proposes ‘tungsten shotgun’ to enhance fusion reactor stability
Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a "tungsten shotgun" to neutralize runaway electrons in fusion ...
‘World’s first’ grid-scale nuclear fusion power plant announced in the US
If all goes to plan, Virginia will be the site of the world’s first grid-scale nuclear fusion power plant, able to harness ...
Scientific American20 天
Will the World’s First Nuclear Fusion Power Plant Be Built in Virginia? Here’s Why We ...
Commonwealth Fusion System’s tokamak fusion reactor design, pictured, makes use of a new kind of high-temperature superconducting magnet. The approach was first explored in a graduate class ...
THE WEEK12 天
Cautious optimism surrounds plans for the world's first nuclear fusion power plant
Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), a spinoff branch of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has announced plans to build the ... that powers the sun. CFS' reactor would generate this fusion ...
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US scientists boost nuclear fusion plasma heating efficiency with metal screens
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory study suggests that a Faraday screen can help achieve the extreme temperatures needed for nuclear fusion.