Last summer, when word came down that ITER, the international thermonuclear reactor, would be built in France, fusion scientists breathed a collected sigh of relief. The start of construction of ...

For the fusion reaction to be sustained, a constant supply of new fuel must be fed into the reactor. Figure 1: The most common hybrid design consists of a fusion reactor core surrounded by a ...

Mowry says: “The idea is simple but modelling the physics ... a speed comparable to the interactions within a fusion reactor. The design that emerged looked like a tokamak run over by a tank ...

This proves General Fusion's Lawson Machine 26 (LM26) prototype reactor, built over the course of 16 months, is working correctly, while employing a rather old-school design to demonstrate its ...

Today’s nuclear fission reactors create radioactive ... Francesco Sciortino, co-founder and CEO of Proxima Fusion, Proxima’s ‘Stellaris’ design is the first peer-reviewed fusion power ...

Compared to the simple, round tokamak design, stellarators seem quaint at the best of times, but this is a result of these fusion reactors following the plasma behavior instead of seeking to ...

Although General Fusion’s piston-based fusion reactor has people mostly very confused ... further complicating the design. Although getting plasma in the reaction chamber where it can be ...

A commercial fusion reactor is expected to need tonnes of the element every day. “However, these challenges pale in comparison to the bigger challenges with plasma reactors and laser ignition ...

Now researchers have invented a simple electrochemical route ... “The amount of enriched lithium-6 you need for fusion is 30–90%, depending on reactor design and fuel needs.

But where the National Ignition Facility uses lasers to compress a fuel pellet, General Fusion’s MTF reactor design relies on steam-driven pistons. Inside the chamber, deuterium-tritium fuel is ...

Fusion on the other hand does not create any long-lived radioactive nuclear waste. A fusion reactor produces helium, which is an inert gas. It also produces and consumes tritium within the plant in a ...