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Fusion power is the generation of energy by nuclear fusion. Fusion reactions are high energy reactions in which two lighter atomic nuclei fuse to form a heavier nucleus. When they combine, some of the mass is converted into energy in accordance with the formula . This major area of plasma physics research is concerned with harnessing this reaction as a source of large scale sustainable energy. There is no question of fusion's scientific feasibility, since stellar nucleosynthesis is the process in which stars transmute matter into energy emitted as radiation.
In almost all large scale commercial proposals, heat from neutron scattering in a controlled fusion reaction is used to operate a steam turbine that drives electrical generators, as in existing fossil fuel and nuclear fission power stations. Many different fusion concepts have come in and out of vogue over the years. The current leading designs are the tokamak and inertial confinement fusion (laser) approaches. As of January 2016, these technologies are not yet practically viable, as they are not energetically viable - i.e. it currently takes more energy to initiate and contain a fusion reaction than the reaction then produces.
Fusion or synthesis, the process of combining two or more distinct entities into a new whole, may refer to:
In nuclear physics, nuclear fusion is a nuclear reaction in which two or more atomic nuclei come very close and then collide at a very high speed and join to form a new nucleus. During this process, matter is not conserved because some of the matter of the fusing nuclei is converted to photons (energy). Fusion is the process that powers active or "main sequence" stars.
The fusion of two nuclei with lower masses than iron-56 (which, along with nickel-62, has the largest binding energy per nucleon) generally releases energy, while the fusion of nuclei heavier than iron absorbs energy. The opposite is true for the reverse process, nuclear fission. This means that generally only lighter elements are fusable, such as Hydrogen and Helium, and likewise, that generally only heavier elements are fissionable, such as Uranium and Plutonium. There are extreme astrophysical events that can lead to short periods of fusion with heavier nuclei. This is the process that gives rise to nucleosynthesis, the creation of the heavy elements during events such as a supernova.
Research comprises "creative work undertaken on a systematic basis in order to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of humans, culture and society, and the use of this stock of knowledge to devise new applications." It is used to establish or confirm facts, reaffirm the results of previous work, solve new or existing problems, support theorems, or develop new theories. A research project may also be an expansion on past work in the field. To test the validity of instruments, procedures, or experiments, research may replicate elements of prior projects, or the project as a whole. The primary purposes of basic research (as opposed to applied research) are documentation, discovery, interpretation, or the research and development (R&D) of methods and systems for the advancement of human knowledge. Approaches to research depend on epistemologies, which vary considerably both within and between humanities and sciences. There are several forms of research: scientific, humanities, artistic, economic, social, business, marketing, practitioner research, etc.
The high-beta fusion reactor (also known as the 4th generation prototype T4) is a project being developed by a team led by Charles Chase of Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works. The "high beta" configuration allows a compact fusion reactor design and speedier development timeline. It was first presented at the Google Solve for X forum on February 7, 2013.
Lockheed Martin's plan is to "build and test a compact fusion reactor in less than a year with a prototype to follow within five years."
The project began in 2010.
In October 2014 Lockheed Martin announced that they will attempt to develop a compact fusion reactor that will fit "on the back of a truck" and produce 100 MW output - enough to power a town of 80,000 people.
The chief designer and technical team lead for the Compact Fusion Reactor (CFR) is Thomas McGuire, who did his PhD dissertation on fusors at MIT. McGuire studied fusion as a source of space propulsion in graduate school in response to a NASA desire to improve travel times to Mars.
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Learn more: http://lockheedmartin.com/compactfusion At Lockheed Martin Skunk Works®, we’re making advancements in the development of fusion energy, the ultimate form of renewable power. Our scientists and engineers are looking at the biggest natural fusion reactor for inspiration – the sun. By containing the power of the sun in a small magnetic bottle, we are on the fast track to developing compact fusion reactors to serve the world’s ever-growing energy needs. Learn more about compact fusion: http://lmt.co/1rfsakG
Outlines the theory and current experiments being pursued in the field of fusion research, including visits to five major fusion research laboratories & interviews with scientists. Explains the complexity faced by the scientific researcher in an effort to achieve fusion power. S88TV1 - Transport, technology, and general interest movies from the past - newsreels, documentaries & publicity films from my archives.
Nuclear fusion is the holy grail of energy generation because by fusing two hydrogen atoms together into a single helium atom it releases enormous amounts of energy, yet represents a clean, safe, sustainable and secure form of power. The most tried and true approach for generating nuclear fusion energy has been a tokamak fusion reactor, which uses very high density magnetic fields to compress and contain a plasma to 100 million degrees. But none has been able to generate more electricity than it consumes. Until now. Director Whyte will describe the ARC nuclear fusion reactor (shown above right), based on a new superconducting material, for achieving very high density magnetic fields. It will be used as a research center, but could ultimately become a prototype for an inexpensive 200MW...
Plasma physicist Thomas Klinger is dealing with the fundamental principles of a future power plant, which – like the sun – will produce energy from the fusion of light atomic nuclei. Embedded in an international endeavour, this requires the design and construction of large research facilities as ITER and Wendelstein 7-X to develop the knowledge base for the exploitation of a new clean and abundant primary energy source. Thomas Klinger is head of the "Stellarator Dynamics and Transport" Division and since 2005 scientific director of the project "Wendelstein 7-X" as well as member of the Directorate of IPP. The Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) reactor is an experimental stellarator (nuclear fusion reactor) built in Greifswald, Germany, by the Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics (IPP). In April 2...
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Our energy future depends on nuclear fusion, says Michel Laberge. In a lab near Vancouver, Michel and his team are building a prototype fusion reactor that mimics the processes of the sun to produce cheap, clean and abundant energy. Michel Laberge is a renowned plasma physicist and a pioneer in the research and development of fusion energy. In 2002, he founded General Fusion, which has raised $50 million and currently employs 65 people in Vancouver. The company is viewed as a leader in the pursuit of commercial fusion energy. Dr. Laberge has deep experience in electronics, computers, materials, lithography, optics and fabrication. In his work with General Fusion, he has acquired practical experience...
Fusion energy has the potential to be one of the most important scientific breakthroughs. Physicist Ian Chapman explores the challenges in nuclear fusion and explains how the international ITER project hopes to demonstrate that fusion energy can be realised here on Earth. Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe Ian Chapman received his MSc in Mathematics and Physics from Durham University in 2004 and his PhD in plasma physics from Imperial College London in 2008. He joined Culham Centre for Fusion Energy in 2004, rising to become the Head of Tokamak Science in 2014. He now leads a team of 100 scientists in both experimental plasma physics, primarily on MAST and JET but also collaborating worldwide on other fusion facilities, and theory and modelling research. Befor...
PhD candidate Silvia Espinosa is creating a revolutionary theoretical model for the edge of the plasma, which has unrevealed some of the tokamak edge main mysteries of the last decade regarding turbulence reduction.
CE Pro's Julie Jacobson speaks with Ingo Schmodt, vp sales for Fusion Research, developer of high-performance music and movie servers.
While studying the viability of building a full-scale fusion reactor, experts at JET - the Joint European Torus - developed a remote handling technology which enabled scientists to enter the fusion simulator and maintain the inside of the device from a distant control room. The technology was developed further under a EURATOM licence by engineers at Oxford Technologies Ltd. (OTL) who are applying this expertise in other fields such as high energy physics, nuclear decommissioning and medical applications.
www.lookingforheat.com LENR for Dummies is your introduction to Cold Fusion / Low Energy Nuclear Reactions research. This video explains the basics about the field of technology and it's potential future applications in a very simple fashion. Throughout the video, an experiment is being performed and commented on.
For the first time, researchers show two types of turbulence within plasma that cause significant heat loss. Solving this problem could take the world a step closer to fusion power which has the promise of limitless and relatively clean energy. (Learn more: http://mitsha.re/XmrC3) Video produced and edited: Melanie Gonick/MIT Plasma simulations and Alcator C-Mod footage: Nathan Howard/MIT PSFC and J. Candy/General Atomics Stock media provided by Pond5.com Music sampled from "Rewound" by Chris Zabriskie http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chr... http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...
Learn more: http://lockheedmartin.com/compactfusion At Lockheed Martin Skunk Works®, we’re making advancements in the development of fusion energy, the ultimate form of renewable power. Our scientists and engineers are looking at the biggest natural fusion reactor for inspiration – the sun. By containing the power of the sun in a small magnetic bottle, we are on the fast track to developing compact fusion reactors to serve the world’s ever-growing energy needs. Learn more about compact fusion: http://lmt.co/1rfsakG
Outlines the theory and current experiments being pursued in the field of fusion research, including visits to five major fusion research laboratories & interviews with scientists. Explains the complexity faced by the scientific researcher in an effort to achieve fusion power. S88TV1 - Transport, technology, and general interest movies from the past - newsreels, documentaries & publicity films from my archives.
Nuclear fusion is the holy grail of energy generation because by fusing two hydrogen atoms together into a single helium atom it releases enormous amounts of energy, yet represents a clean, safe, sustainable and secure form of power. The most tried and true approach for generating nuclear fusion energy has been a tokamak fusion reactor, which uses very high density magnetic fields to compress and contain a plasma to 100 million degrees. But none has been able to generate more electricity than it consumes. Until now. Director Whyte will describe the ARC nuclear fusion reactor (shown above right), based on a new superconducting material, for achieving very high density magnetic fields. It will be used as a research center, but could ultimately become a prototype for an inexpensive 200MW...
Plasma physicist Thomas Klinger is dealing with the fundamental principles of a future power plant, which – like the sun – will produce energy from the fusion of light atomic nuclei. Embedded in an international endeavour, this requires the design and construction of large research facilities as ITER and Wendelstein 7-X to develop the knowledge base for the exploitation of a new clean and abundant primary energy source. Thomas Klinger is head of the "Stellarator Dynamics and Transport" Division and since 2005 scientific director of the project "Wendelstein 7-X" as well as member of the Directorate of IPP. The Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) reactor is an experimental stellarator (nuclear fusion reactor) built in Greifswald, Germany, by the Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics (IPP). In April 2...
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Our energy future depends on nuclear fusion, says Michel Laberge. In a lab near Vancouver, Michel and his team are building a prototype fusion reactor that mimics the processes of the sun to produce cheap, clean and abundant energy. Michel Laberge is a renowned plasma physicist and a pioneer in the research and development of fusion energy. In 2002, he founded General Fusion, which has raised $50 million and currently employs 65 people in Vancouver. The company is viewed as a leader in the pursuit of commercial fusion energy. Dr. Laberge has deep experience in electronics, computers, materials, lithography, optics and fabrication. In his work with General Fusion, he has acquired practical experience...
Fusion energy has the potential to be one of the most important scientific breakthroughs. Physicist Ian Chapman explores the challenges in nuclear fusion and explains how the international ITER project hopes to demonstrate that fusion energy can be realised here on Earth. Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe Ian Chapman received his MSc in Mathematics and Physics from Durham University in 2004 and his PhD in plasma physics from Imperial College London in 2008. He joined Culham Centre for Fusion Energy in 2004, rising to become the Head of Tokamak Science in 2014. He now leads a team of 100 scientists in both experimental plasma physics, primarily on MAST and JET but also collaborating worldwide on other fusion facilities, and theory and modelling research. Befor...
PhD candidate Silvia Espinosa is creating a revolutionary theoretical model for the edge of the plasma, which has unrevealed some of the tokamak edge main mysteries of the last decade regarding turbulence reduction.
Research lecture at the Worldwide Center of Mathematics.
Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel switched on the first hydrogen plasma on 3 February 2016 at a ceremony attended by numerous guests from the realms of science and politics. This will mark the start of scientific operation of Wendelstein 7-X. This the world’s largest and most modern fusion device of the stellarator type has already been working since the beginning of December 2015 with a helium plasma as preparation for the first hydrogen plasma. The objective of fusion research is to derive energy from fusion of atomic nuclei just as the sun does.
Professor Brian Cox takes a global journey in search of the energy source of the future. Called nuclear fusion, it is the process that fuels the sun and every other star in the universe. Yet despite over five decades of effort, scientists have been unable to get even a single watt of fusion electricity onto the grid. Brian returns to Horizon to find out why. Granted extraordinary access to the biggest and most ambitious fusion experiments on the planet, Brian travels to the USA to see a high-security fusion bomb-testing facility in action and is given a tour of the world's most powerful laser. In South Korea, he clambers inside the reaction chamber of K-Star, the world's first supercooled, superconducting fusion reactor, where the fate of future fusion research will be decided.
Offers a good status report on both the magnetic confinement and the laser fusion research facilities in the United States in the late 1970s and obligatory amusing predictions of fusion power plants by the 90s.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel is set to officially switch on the Wendelstein 7-X experimental stellarator that is expected to produce the first hydrogen plasma at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) in Greifswald on Wednesday, February 3. The operation will mark the start of scientific operation of Wendelstein 7-X, the world’s largest and most modem fusion device of the experimental stellarator that was completed in October 2015. It was announced that the stellarator was ‘functional’ in December 2015. The objective of the fusion research is to derive energy from fusion of atomic nuclei just as the sun does and in an environmentally friendly way.
Nuclear fusion is the holy grail of energy generation because by fusing two hydrogen atoms together into a single helium atom it releases enormous amounts of energy, yet represents a clean, safe, sustainable and secure form of power. The most tried and true approach for generating nuclear fusion energy has been a tokamak fusion reactor, which uses very high density magnetic fields to compress and contain a plasma to 100 million degrees. But none has been able to generate more electricity than it consumes. Until now. Director Whyte will describe the ARC nuclear fusion reactor (shown above right), based on a new superconducting material, for achieving very high density magnetic fields. It will be used as a research center, but could ultimately become a prototype for an inexpensive 200MW...
Records show Cold Fusion was discovered in 1989. Most is the scientific field state that the experiment in 1989 was debunked. Keeping that in mind, here is an interesting article.: http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a18673/cold-fusion-essay/ This breakthrough caused many of the "highest level" physicists, who depended enormously on government funding for their standard (hot) fusion research, to wage an unprecedented war/smear-campaign upon the idea that Cold Fusion truly exists.
9 November 2016 Fusion, the process that powers the sun and the stars, offers a solution to the world's long-term energy needs: providing large scale energy production with zero greenhouse gas emissions, short-lived radio-active waste compared to conventional nuclear fission cycles, and a virtually limitless supply of fuel. Almost four decades of experiments in fusion research has produced spectacular progress. Present-day experiments have a power gain ratio of approximately unity (ratio of power out to power in), with a power output in the 10's of megawatts. Fusion energy research is now poised to advance rapidly due to a large international investment in next step high performance fusion experiments, including billion dollar class experiments in Asia, and the $20 billion burning pla...