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World’s first steam-powered piston system sparks nuclear fusion plasma in Canada
In a global first, Richmond, Canada-headquartered fusion energy company General Fusion achieved the first-ever ...
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General Fusion's reactor prototype creates plasma for the first time
Canadian startup General Fusion has been working on its unique approach to producing clean energy through nuclear fusion for ...
New computer code could lead to simpler, less costly stellarators for fusion power
Like engineers who design high-performance Formula One race cars, scientists want to create high-performance plasmas in ...
German nuclear fusion startup envisages test plant by 2031
Proxima Fusion, a Munich-based nuclear fusion technology company, aims to start a test reactor in 2031 as it works towards ...
General Fusion fires up its newest steampunk fusion reactor
The reactor, called Lawson Machine 26 (LM26), is General Fusion’s latest iteration in a string of devices that have tested ...
Scientists Just Uncovered a Major Challenge for Fusion Power – And It’s Not What You’d Expect
Researchers at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory are exploring how deuterium, a potential fusion fuel, interacts with ...
100 km/s: Russian scientists develop a plasma engine that may cut Mars travel time to just 30 days
The new Russian rocket engine achieves higher acceleration than chemical rockets by using magnetic plasma accelerators, ...
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Detecting nuclear radiation at greater distances
Using an infrared pulsed carbon dioxide laser, project leader Howard Milchberg and his team showed that they could detect low ...
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Fusion energy: The holy grail of clean power
The Earth possesses virtually inexhaustible reserves of the raw materials—deuterium and tritium—essential for a fusion ...