Of Interest archive
2013
22 Jul 2013
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Fusion-fission hybrid could destroy nuclear waste
Physicists at The University of Texas at Austin have designed a new system that, when fully developed, would use fusion to eliminate most…
21 Jul 2013
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Laser fusion nears energy gain?
Laser based fusion is nearing the point at which it delivers more energy than it consumes, according to one of the lead researchers working…
20 Jul 2013
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Fusion industry may lose its cool over helium
It's a well known fact that the fusion of tritium and deuterium produces helium. However, a fusion power plant also uses helium — it is a…
19 Jul 2013
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Pillaging the Moon for the promise of space energy
Between 1969 and 1972, Apollo astronauts brought just under 842 pounds of rocks and regolith back from the Moon. In 1985, engineers at the…
18 Jul 2013
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Alcator C-Mod may lose funds
President Obama's budget request to Congress for fiscal year 2013, announced in February, proposed to shut down MIT's federally-funded…
17 Jul 2013
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Small Canadian firm plans prototype nuclear fusion test for 2014
A small Canadian firm is aiming to beat world governments and international research teams in the race to commercialise a nuclear fusion…
16 Jul 2013
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Thin current sheets in space: where the action is
The Universe is filled with plasma, a charged gas consisting of ions and electrons. Thin sheets with currents separate large plasma regions…
14 Jul 2013
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Flying to Mars in a Z-Pinch rocket
At 54.6 million km away at its closest, the fastest travel to Mars from Earth using current technology (and no small bit of math) takes…
13 Jul 2013
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IAEA report finds Fukushima didn't cripple nuclear future
Less than 18 months after the meltdown accident at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s (TEPCO) Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, the International Atomic…
12 Jul 2013
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Sticking nuclei together
One of the most puzzling things about fusion is that two positively charged particles, deuterium and tritium could possibly stick together…
11 Jul 2013
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Exascale supercomputing to simulate fusion reactions
Scientists at Princeton University are composing the complex codes designed to instruct a new class of powerful computers that will allow…
10 Jul 2013
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Six orders of magnitude
To create fusion, you need a very different world to the one we live in. It needs to be six orders of magnitude hotter and six orders of…