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Global Fusion Energy Efforts Unite in Development of Innovative Tokamak in Spain
At a Glance A team of researchers from the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and the University of…
We’ve Come So Close to Annihiliating Ourselves—Multiple Times
Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer helmed research that would end a world war; unfortunately, what he found would forever…
Nuclear fusion breakthrough: Decades of research are still needed before fusion can be used as clean energy
A technician conducting a review at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif. (Damien Jemison/Lawrence Livermore National…
Why fusion ignition is being hailed as a major breakthrough in fusion – a nuclear physicist explains
The target chamber at the National Ignition Facility has been the site of a number of breakthroughs in…
Nuclear Fusion Scores Yet Another Win With “Burning Plasma” Record
Avid readers of Modern Sciences shouldn’t be surprised at this point that we’re covering yet another milestone in…
China’s “Artificial Sun” Tokamak Breaks Plasma Confinement Records
2022 kicks off with yet another new plasma confinement record for a nuclear fusion project somewhere around the…
Korea’s KSTAR Fusion Reactor Sets 30-Second Plasma Containment Record
Just months after the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory managed the use of 192 lasers to ignite a hydrogen…
Experts Look to Argon Fluoride Lasers for Nuclear Fusion’s Next Step
Nuclear fusion remains to be the dream for our planet’s power generation, promising a zero-emissions power source that…
Scientists Use 192 Lasers to Get Near Nuclear Fusion “Ignition”
All current nuclear power plants in operation around the world use some variant of nuclear fission. In it,…