Nuclear fusion power plants, in theory, can provide clean, safe, cheap and ubiquitous power.
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Scientists have been working to prove nuclear fusion works but much of it still remains theoretical.
The upshot is that nuclear fusion can happen using rough-and-ready lasers and rough-and-ready fuel.
There is one problem with nuclear fusion that lasers cannot solve, however: the price.
The company will be collaborating with the University to publish research related to aneutronic nuclear fusion power.
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This is why the idea of nuclear fusion is cool as opposed to fission, if this is possible.
White dwarves are no longer capable of the nuclear fusion that sustains our Sun and most other stars.
There she worked on developing a nuclear fusion reactor, but grew disenchanted with the long-term prospects of fusion.
Stars shine by nuclear fusion the merging of light atomic nuclei to release energy.
Young Indians loved it and waved posters saying we want cultural fusion, not nuclear fusion at a packed New Delhi concert.
In addition, many of our laboratories studying nuclear fusion are closing, while France plans to open a nuclear-fusion reactor in 2019.
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We will have to wait until the middle of the century for a practical nuclear fusion plant to come into being.
The Earth is warmed naturally by its own nuclear fission reactors within and also by the sun, that big nuclear fusion reactor.
Tri-Alpha wants to bring nuclear fusion reactors to market, according to sources.
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He first attracted attention for creating a nuclear fusion reactor at 14.
When nuclear fusion uses up a star's fuel, in the central high-pressure stellar core where fusion occurs, the star will collapse fairly violently.
If the shock-waves are intense enough, the fuel at the target centre is heated and compressed to the extent that nuclear fusion can occur.
The moon contains large concentrations of helium-3, a nonradioactive isotope that's rare on Earth but could be an incredibly valuable fuel for nuclear fusion.
Nuclear fusion, a theoretical way of harnessing power by fusing atoms which is still under development, may one day provide a cleaner alternative to the world's energy problem.
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That is something nuclear fusion researchers would love to do.
But the Moon is a source of rare earth elements, as well as Helium-3, a possible future fuel for nuclear fusion reactors (if we ever actually invent them).
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However, while mining helium-3 from the moon will be one challenge, extracting energy from it is another, as it relies on nuclear fusion, rather than fission used in today's nuclear reactors.
Those white dwarf stars that find themselves near a "companion" star can draw material from their neighbour, building up to a critical mass and eventually sparking nuclear fusion again in a nova.
"It is dubious whether it will ever be economically viable even if nuclear fusion works commercially or if helium-3 is a better option than other elements available on earth, " he told CNN.
MEPs and the EU governments, which are collectively called the Council, have not yet agreed on a contingency fund to deal with emergencies, nor on financing of the Iter nuclear fusion project.
On May 25, fusion power research startup Lawrenceville Plasma Physics announced that it had signed a contract for research collaboration in nuclear fusion with the Plasma Physics Research Center of I.
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Mining the moon for fuel used in nuclear fusion reactors is among NASA's 200-plus set of mission goals and could precipitate another reason for other countries and private investors to join future lunar exploration.
When this beam struck a target of erbium deuteride, the team detected neutrons coming from the target with precisely the energy expected if they were generated by the nuclear fusion of two deuterium nuclei.
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This project, a collaboration between America, Russia, Japan and Europe, is intended to create sustained nuclear fusion by squeezing gases so hard that their atomic nuclei fuse together and give off more energy than was needed to squeeze them.
Acting alone, gravity would cause stars to collapse completely, but as long as energy is produced at their centers by nuclear fusion (the joining of atomic nuclei to form new elements, as in a hydrogen bomb), the star is heated and puffed up.
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