Navy Chief, U Like?...

[BackAtIt]

https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/...cc1858395e79411a61735c4492da080b&action=click

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[NavyChief]

Mi gusta, mi amigo.

Gracias, good stuff here.

 

[NavyChief]

You should read some World Nuclear News, it discusses this of course, but, it goes much into the why and what's going on with the old plants and power if this is not built.

Homepage - World Nuclear News
https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/

 

[DungeonDweller]

Are the French making power with fusion? I know they were into fast breeder reactors.

 

[NavyChief]

No they are not, just basic ole fision still

 

[BackAtIt]

I haven't read up on fusion...Didn't even know that it was possible to harness it yet...How are they able to produce the necessary heat needed to fuse the nuclei?...I do like the idea of it not producing any harmful by-products....Is helium really the only one that is produced from the reaction?...Are they sure about this?...I need to study up on it...It does sound promising!...Definitely like it better than fission!!!...

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[BackAtIt]

You should read some World Nuclear News, it discusses this of course, but, it goes much into the why and what's going on with the old plants and power if this is not built.

Homepage - World Nuclear News
https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/

Ty!...Will get busy!...


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[CFM]

I like NanCy pre Rosetta Stone

 

[NavyChief]

Key Fusion Energy Milestones
1920 British astronomer Arthur Eddington theorizes that the sun and other stars are powered by the fusion of hydrogen atoms.

1934 Australian physicist Mark Oliphant observes atoms fusing and emitting energy in his University of Cambridge laboratory.

1958 Los Alamos researchers demonstrate the first controlled thermonuclear fusion.

1958 The first tokamak, the Soviet Union’s T-1, begins operation.

1974 KMS Fusion, a private-sector company, fires an array of lasers at a deuterium-tritium pellet, achieving the first successful laser-induced fusion.

1985 Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan agree to a joint collaboration on fusion research, which leads to the ITER experiment.

1995 Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory’s tokamak achieves a record plasma temperature of 510 million °C.

1997 The Joint European Torus (JET) reactor in England outputs 16 megawatts of fusion power, still the world record.

2013 Construction begins on ITER, in southern France.

2013 National Ignition Facility (NIF) implosion yields more energy than the energy absorbed by the fuel.

2019 Construction of ITER is two-thirds complete. It is expected to produce 10 times the input energy.

 

[NavyChief]

The Big Idea: Powerful electromagnetic fields confine and heat plasma inside a doughnut-shaped reactor called a tokamak, a Russian acronym for “toroidal chamber with axial magnetic field.” Since the 1960s, more than 200 functional tokamaks have been built, and the plasma physics fundamentals are well established. The most ambitious of these is the US $25 billion ITER, now under construction in southern France.

Reality Check: Scientists are a long way from achieving a self-sustaining reaction, and from preventing neutron activation from destroying the reactor’s walls.

Projects to Watch: Commonwealth Fusion Systems, Tokamak Energy

 

[NavyChief]

The Big Idea: Powerful pulsed laser or ion beams (or other methods) compress a small fuel pellet to extremely high densities, and the resulting shock wave heats the plasma before it has time to dissipate.

Reality Check: Forces exerted on the fuel pellet result in laser-plasma instabilities that produce high-energy electrons, which heat and scatter much of the fuel before it can fuse. In addition, the high cost and complexity of the laser drivers may make traditional approaches to ICF unsuitable for energy production.

Projects to Watch: First Light Fusion, General Atomics

 

[NavyChief]

The Big Idea: Sometimes called magneto-inertial fusion (MIF), this hybrid approach uses magnetic fields to confine a lower-density plasma (as in magnetic-confinement fusion), which is then heated and compressed using an inertial-confinement method such as lasers or pistons (as in inertial-confinement fusion).

Reality Check: Scientists have yet to increase the plasma density to a working level and keep it there long enough for a significant fraction of the fuel mass to fuse.

Projects to Watch: General Fusion, HyperJet Fusion, Magneto-Inertial Fusion Technologies