Trump, Merge and Nuclear Fusion
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Let’s start with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility (NIF)—arguably the largest, most established fusion research facility in the world. This year, NIF continued firing its reactor, tweaking even the most minute details of its setup in hopes of the slightest improvement in energy yield efficiency.
TAE advances hydrogen boron fusion by removing a 100 GW starter, cutting costs and giving readers a simple look at cleaner energy.
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‘Star in a jar’: UK achieves 1,000 times faster 5D plasma modeling for nuclear fusion
Developed by researchers from the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA), Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU), and Emmi AI, the system—called GyroSwin—can simulate complex fusion plasma behavior in seconds rather than days. The official press release highlighted this development as “modelling a star in a jar.”
A nuclear fusion breakthrough has always been 30-odd years away, but not anymore. The race for commercialization is on.
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Is printing Wikipedia less efficient than nuclear fusion?
This video compares the energy efficiency of printing the entire Wikipedia versus the energy produced by nuclear fusion. It breaks down calculations, energy consumption, and the potential of future fusion technology,
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US firm reveals fusion reactor design aiming for fission-level power reliability
New Jersey-based Thea Energy has unveiled the preconceptual design of Helios, its stellarator-based fusion
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Forget wind and solar - fusion is the real future of clean energy
Nuclear Fusion holds the potential to free us of so many of the constraints offered by everything from fossil fuels to renewable energy option like wind and solar, if we can just get it working. Today we'll look at the challenges facing us in terms of the physics and engineering,