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Nuclear Fission Works Fine But Not Fusion. Heres Why
Startup companies are rebooting the quest for clean energy's holy grail: fusion. Nuclear fusion is the reverse of nuclear fission: instead of splitting atoms youre squashing small ones together to form bigger ones. This releases a huge burst of power too as a fraction of the mass of the particles involved gets converted into energy. In fact it produces three to four times as much power as nuclear fission and its fuel isnt toxic or fossil or even particularly rare. If something goes wrong fu...
Understanding Alternative Energies #Infographic
Understanding Alternative Energies #Infographic #Energy
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Advances in magnet technology could bring cheaper, modular fusion reactors from sci-fi to sci-reality in less than a decade
Iter sort de terre en Provence - Vidéo Dailymotion
ITER (originally an acronym of International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor and Latin for "the way" or "the road") is an international nuclear fusion research and engineering project, which is currently building the world's largest experimental tokamak nuclear fusion reactor adjacent to the Cadarache facility in the south of France ( Saint-Paul-Lez-Durance ).
Amazing Science
A bizarre reactor that might save nuclear fusion | Amazing Science | Scoop.it
On August 31, 2012 the Sun threw a major tantrum. It started with a vast arc of material towering over its surface, a stream of plasma flowing between two sunspots. Sometimes these collapse back down to the Sun’s surface, but this one exploded, blasting hundreds of millions of tons of material out into space. SDO captured this ridiculously awesome picture of the arc just before it erupted!
cosmonline.co.uk
How a magnetic plasma donut creates fusion. Mmmmm... donuts.
ITER keeps eye on prize
Construction delays force rethink of fusion research program, but ITER keeps eye on prize http://www.nature.com/news/iter-keeps-eye-on-prize-1.13957