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Scientists make progress on ultra-futuristic device that could generate virtually unlimited energy — here's the tech that's bringing it one step closer to reality
"Most advanced of its kind in the world." Scientists make progress on ultra-futuristic device that could generate virtually ...
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China’s EAST reactor keeps the fire of magnetic fusion burning
One set of designs involves the use of a tokamak — a donut-shaped vessel where the nuclei are confined, like in a cage, and made to fuse. Inside the vessel, a deuterium gas is exposed to about ...
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France tops China’s tokamak record with 22-minute plasma containment run
France’s Commissariat à L'énergie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives on Tuesday claimed it’s topped China’s recently-established for record maintaining fusion plasma in a tokamak, and therefore ...
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Tokamak assembly
The plasma inside the vacuum vessel is monitored in real-time by a vast array of magnetic sensors, thermocouples and accelerometers. Data, vital for machine operation, is transmitted by cables of the ...