Nuclear Fusion breakthrough... France Plans Worlds First Reactor

[homomo 23,883]

19 minutes ago, CannaeDrive said:

OP is right, this is new. Here's the deal:

 

"The MIT team tweaked the “recipe” for nuclear fusion in such a way that the output of power was ten times greater than with the original composition..."

"The tokamak produces magnetic fields that keep the superhot plasma inside and keep it moving—and hot—but controlling it for ever-longer periods of time and making it move faster to produce more energy has been a challenge. Now, the MIT scientists may have found the secret ingredient in an isotope of helium, helium-3."

"The team, from the Plasma Science and Fusion Center of the MIT, added trace amounts—1 percent—of helium-3 to the traditional combination and tested the new combination at the Alcator C-Mod tokamak. The results showed that the hydrogen-deuterium-helium plasma got wrigglier and hotter, producing 10 times more energy than before. The amount of energy produced after the addition of helium, the researchers explained, increased output by an order of magnitude, bringing it into the realm of megaelectronvolts."

"The test results were so exciting that another team, the one working with the JET in the UK, decided to replicate them. The replication confirmed the results, raising hopes that a fully functional nuclear fusion reactor may indeed be on the horizon."

 

 

 

This is incredible.

[CannaeDrive 3,412]

8 minutes ago, New Compassion said:

I thought this was going to be about thorium. 

Thorium is used in nuclear fission. This is about fusion.

[PartySick 172,380]

57 minutes ago, DeanWinchester said:

Maybe you guys are thinking of fission instead of fusion?

This^

Spoiler

I think  I fell out of the loop of nuclear energy

This is so cool though

44 minutes ago, CannaeDrive said:

Now, the MIT scientists may have found the secret ingredient in an isotope of helium, helium-3."

I TOLD 'EM

"Mine the Moon" I said

The lunar surface is covered in Helium-3, a ton (2000lbs) of which could power the U.S. for an entire year

[GypsyVida 5,958]

4 hours ago, Economy said:

 

 

^^^^^^^^^^^

 

See i knew the info couldnt of all been old cuz the article came out today!!!!

 

Yall coming at me for nothing 👀

Yeah ur right sorry.

I was thinking of the hadron collider in Switzerland. 

Completely different thing... my bad 

[Goosey 3,017]

5 hours ago, Economy said:

Plan is to receive 10X the energy put into it by recreating what happens inside the sun

Couldn't that engulf the Earth?

[Economy 52,834]

24 minutes ago, Goosey said:

Couldn't that engulf the Earth?

No

 

the same particle reactions that go on in the sun... but only a few atoms would be used at a time in this process for consistant energy output...

 

No enfulfing of the Earth. This isnt like DR Octapus sun energy from Spiderman 👀

[sarahb 17,185]

Hey I've heard about this

This is the last unlockable power plant in the Sim City games 

[Economy 52,834]

7 hours ago, sarahb said:

Hey I've heard about this

This is the last unlockable power plant in the Sim City games 

Haha yeah

 

in the version I had i think it was in 2050 they were released

 

real world may be ahead of schedule 😎