New Fusion Milestone With Tungsten 'West' Tokamak Sustains Super-Hot Plasma for Record-breaking Six Minutes
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The Debrief ^
| May 6, 2024 | Micah Hanks
WEST (Credit: CEA-IRFM). A new record in fusion has been achieved using a device internally clad in tungsten, a development that could set the pace for helping make fusion energy viable at the commercial scale. Princeton
Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) facility, reports that the device was able to sustain hot fusion plasma nearing temperatures of 50 million degrees Celsius for a record-breaking six minutes. Relying on 1.15 gigajoules of power, the latest achievement saw a 15% increase in energy, as well as twice the density of previous experiments. The new milestone was set using...
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Department of Energy Fusion Discovery Could Allow Physicists to Tame Volatile Plasmas
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The Debrief ^
| APRIL 16, 2024 | MICAH HANKS
(Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have developed a new strategy in the quest to harness fusion to produce electricity: combining two existing methods of managing plasma to allow greater overall flexibility. The
PPPL team’s new dual approach brings together electron cyclotron current drive (ECCD) methods with resonant magnetic perturbations (RMP), marking the first time a simulation showing how they can be used together could facilitate greater control of plasma during fusion reactions. In simple terms, fusion produces energy by replicating the natural processes occurring on the surface of...
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Rockstar Successfully Demonstrates Firetstar™ NUCLEAR FUSION-ENHANCED PULSED PLASMA PROPULSION DRIVE
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The Debrief ^
| APRIL 12, 2024 | CHRISTOPHER PLAIN
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‘Artificial sun’ sets record for time at 100 million degrees in latest advance for nuclear fusion
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CNN (sorry) ^
| 4/1/2024 | Laura Paddison
Scientists in South Korea have announced a new world record for the length of time they sustained temperatures of 100 million degrees Celsius — seven times hotter than the sun’s core — during a nuclear fusion experiment, in what they say is an important step forward for this futuristic energy technology.
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Trump-Reagan Fusion Can Win the New Cold War
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realclearpolitics ^
| 03/24/2024 | Peter Berkowitz
Since Donald Trump’s rise within Republican ranks, conservatives have divided into two competing foreign policy camps. One
contends that Trump’s approach suits the world in which we live and supersedes previous GOP national security and foreign affairs outlooks. A smaller contingent contends that Ronald Reagan’s understanding of America and his conduct of diplomacy remain the gold standard for U.S. foreign policy. Atlantic Council colleagues Matthew Kroenig (also a Georgetown professor of government and international relations) and Dan Negrea contend that considerably more agreement about foreign affairs prevails among conservatives than they themselves realize. When fleshed out, a Trump-Reagan fusion represents,...
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This company wants to turn a Tennessee coal plant into a fusion reactor
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Electrek ^
| 21 FEB 2024 | Jameson Dow
Type One energy has announced its intention to use a retired TVA coal plant site, the Bull Run Fossil Plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, as the site for a prototype fusion reactor with the hope to eventually commercialize fusion power – and maybe even find a neat way to use old EV
batteries to help power the process. The Bull Run Fossil Plant was a coal-powered generation facility first opened in 1967 and shut down on December 1, 2023 – just over two months ago. It was run by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), the largest public utility in the...
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It's Confirmed! Laser Fusion Experiment Hit a Critical Milestone in Power Generation
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Science Alert ^
| 06 February 2024 | CLARE WATSON
(Jacob Long/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) In December 2022, scientists at the US National Ignition Facility announced a historic milestone: for the first time, their laser-powered fusion reaction had 'broken even', producing more energy than it consumed. But
advances as big as this need to be rigorously checked – and that can take some time. Importantly, a series of papers detailing the experimental design, technological advancements, and results of the initial breakthrough reaction have just passed peer review, meaning researchers not involved in the work have vetted the methods and findings in order to check the sums. "This achievement is the...
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A World with Abundant Fusion Energy with David Kirtley of Helion Energy
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Age Of Miracles youtube ^
| Jan 29, 2024 | Packy McCormick
The interview with David Kirtley, founder of Helion Energy, dives into the development of fusion energy as a sustainable and efficient future power source with Helion's approach focusing on rapid iteration, efficiency in direct electricity generation, and addressing the challenges and regulatory aspects of commercializing fusion energy. Key
Takeaways They make H3 by fusing two deuterium atoms that come from water. They convert the fusion directly into electricity. No steam needed. Their first power plant already is contracted with microsoft to produce power in 2028. They believe they will be able to produce electricity and make it available to the...
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Shooting the way to fusion energy...Super high-velocity projectiles might ultimately beat lasers in the race to achieve practical fusion energy
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Asia Times ^
| DECEMBER 18, 2023 | By JONATHAN TENNENBAUM
Looking down the barrel of the First Light Fusion’s “Big Friendly Gun” – a two-stage gas gun that's used to generate fusion reactions by the impact of a high-velocity projectile on a specially-designed target. Photo:
First Light Fusion In my discussion (published starting here) with Paul Methven, head of Britain’s STEP program to build a first electricity-producing fusion power plant, Methven stressed that the program is open to more than one technological option. While STEP is betting mainly on the spherical tokamak, it is supporting the formation of a “fusion cluster” that will include private fusion companies pursuing entirely different...
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Japanese Startup Testing Ground-Based Fusion Laser In Pioneering Effort To Combat Space Debris And Orbital Threats
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The Debrief ^
| JANUARY 18, 2024 | TIM MCMILLAN
In an initiative that could redefine space safety, the Japanese-based startup EX-Fusion plans to test a ground-based fusion laser system to “capture, remove, or push out” objects operating in Earth’s orbit. In
a statement announcing a partnership with the Australian company EOS Space Systems, EX-Fusion said they aim to use ground-based laser systems to address the mounting problem of space debris, a growing concern for global space agencies and satellite operators. “In recent years, the number of space debris around the Earth has increased significantly, leading to catastrophic collisions with valuable space assets essential to life on Earth, such as...
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Fusion lights the Universe...A correct view of cosmic evolution that abandons the Big Bang will help humanity take the next step in producing fusion energy here on Earth [Part 3]
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Asia Times ^
| JANUARY 11, 2023 | By ERIC LERNER
Stephan's Quintet cluster of galaxies Photo: NASA, ESA, CSA, STSCI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In part 1 and part 2 of this series of articles on how cosmic evolution developed with neither expansion nor a Big Bang, we saw how electromagnetic forces formed huge filaments of current and plasma. Then
gravitation and magnetism combined to collapse these filaments into a hierarchy of stars, galaxies, clusters and superclusters of galaxies. When stars formed, a new process came to dominate evolution: fusion of nuclei in the dense stars, releasing immense amounts of energy and creating the chemical elements. The cosmos is still in this phase...
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Fusion from filaments on Earth and in the cosmos...Part 2 of ‘The Big Bang never happened – so what did?’
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Asia Times ^
| DECEMBER 11, 2023 | By ERIC LERNER
The Orion: A molecular cloud shows cosmic filamentary structures where stars are being born. Image:
ESA / Herschel / Ph. André, D Polychroni, A. Roy, V Könyves, N Schneider for the Gould Belt survey Key Program ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In the first part of this series, we saw that electromagnetic processes in plasmas – electrically conducting gases – could, over trillions of years, produce the giant filaments that we see today as the largest structures in the universe. This happened without a Big Bang, without dark energy or dark matter, based on processes that we observe here on Earth in the laboratory...
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Sickening moment hateful arsonist sets fire to Jewish-Japanese fusion restaurant in Brooklyn
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NY Post ^
| 12/08/2023 | Snejana Farberov
Chilling video shows the moment a suspect set fire to a Jewish-Japanese fusion restaurant in Williamsburg, in what police are calling an antisemitic arson hate crime. The
incident occurred on Nov. 18 shortly after 4 am in front of the Shalom Japan restaurant on South 4th Street, according to police Friday. Surveillance video shows a man walking up to the eatery and torching two outside window tarps that cops said featured images of the Jewish Star of David. In the footage, the bearded and bespectacled arsonist is seen casually walking back and forth as smoke begins to spread.
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Nuclear fusion breakthrough: 'Holy grail' of power production is closer to reality as the world's biggest reactor - capable of reaching 200 MILLION degrees Celsius - is turned on in Japan
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The Daily Mail ^
| 4 December 2023 | Jonathan Chadwick
It could usher an era of limitless clean, safe and affordable energy to meet the world's demand. Now,
the 'holy grail' of power production – nuclear fusion, which makes the sun and the stars shine – has come a step closer. Scientists have switched on JT-60SA, a £500 million fusion device measuring around 40 feet in diameter, located in Naka north of Tokyo, Japan. JT-60SA contains swirling plasma heated up 200 million degrees Celsius (360 million degrees Fahrenheit). This is the threshold where hydrogen atoms can begin to fuse into helium, releasing sustainable energy in the process that could put...
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Fusion power: Are we getting any closer?
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Big Think ^
| M. Mitchell Waldrop
Scientists have been chasing the dream of harnessing the reactions that power the Sun since the dawn of the atomic era. Interest,
and investment, in the carbon-free energy source is heating up. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ For the better part of a century now, astronomers and physicists have known that a process called thermonuclear fusion has kept the Sun and the stars shining for millions or even billions of years. And ever since that discovery, they’ve dreamed of bringing that energy source down to Earth and using it to power the modern world. It’s a dream that’s only become more compelling today, in...
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China’s Jiangxi to build a fusion-fission reactor
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Asia Times ^
Southeastern China’s Jiangxi province is going to build a fusion-fission power plant for more than 20 billion yuan (US$2.7 billion), with a target of continuously generating 100 megawatts (MW) of electricity. Jiangxi
Electronic Group, a state-owned enterprise, said in a statement on Tuesday that Lianovation Superconductor and CNNC Fusion (Chengdu) Design and Research Institute signed a cooperation framework agreement on November 12 to jointly build a fusion-fission reactor in the province. ... In a fusion-fission hybrid reactor, the high-energy neutrons produced by the fusion reactions are absorbed in a “blanket” of fissionable material, where they trigger fission reactions. The favored...
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Reedley Lab Owner Tied to CCP
Zhu Part of “Military-Civil Fusion” Program, CDC Failed Miserably
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California Globe ^
| November 15, 2023 | By Thomas Buckley
The owner of the Reedley biolab was/is part of the Chinese Communist Party’s “Military-Civil Fusion” program, and received millions in suspicious dollars from China while stealing American bio-technology, selling unlicensed pregnancy and COVID tests, and squirreling away thousands of vials of deadly pathogens.
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New 3D printing method creates a steel-aluminum fusion hybrid
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Tech Explore ^
| NOVEMBER 14, 2023 | by Hiroshima University
The research team led by Hiroshima University engineers developed a 3D printing method that achieved stainless steel and aluminum bonds capable of withstanding separation stress of up to 17404.5 pounds per square inch on average. Credit:
Motomichi Yamamoto/Hiroshima University Steel and aluminum are key players in supporting economic growth, yet materials joining them remain unexplored due to their fusion zones' brittleness. A new 3D printing method's fix may be a step toward a steel-aluminum hybrid renaissance. A new 3D printing method shrunk brittle zones plaguing steel and aluminum's juncture to a size of less than two microns, overcoming a fundamental...
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The ACE2 receptor accelerates but is not biochemically required for SARS-CoV-2 membrane fusion
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Royal Society of Chemistry ^
| 6/5/2023 | multiple
Authors: Marcos Cervantes, Tobin Hess, Giorgio G. Morbioli, Anjali Sengara and Peter M. Kasson Abstract The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infects human cells via the ACE2 receptor. Structural
evidence suggests that ACE2 may not just serve as an attachment factor but also conformationally activate the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein for membrane fusion. Here, we test that hypothesis directly, using DNA-lipid tethering as a synthetic attachment factor in place of ACE2. We find that SARS-CoV-2 pseudovirus and virus-like particles are capable of membrane fusion without ACE2 if activated with an appropriate protease. Thus, ACE2 is not biochemically required for SARS-CoV-2 membrane fusion. However, addition...
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