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Performance was gradually improved until, as of 2024, the fusion energy routinely exceeded 2 MJ. [31] To be useful for energy production, a fusion facility must produce fusion output at least an order of magnitude more than the energy used to power the laser amplifiers – 400 MJ in the case of NIF. [32]
Advances in the potential energy source may not be about electricity, at least at first.
Unlike nuclear fission — the process used in the world’s nuclear plants today, which is generated by the division of atoms — nuclear fusion leaves no legacy of long-lived radioactive waste.
If all goes to plan, Virginia will be the site of the world’s first grid-scale nuclear fusion power plant, ... December 18, 2024 at 6:53 AM. If all goes to plan, ...
Fusion ignition is the point at which a nuclear fusion reaction becomes self-sustaining. This occurs when the energy being given off by the reaction heats the fuel mass more rapidly than it cools. In other words, fusion ignition is the point at which the increasing self-heating of the nuclear fusion removes the need for external heating. [ 1 ]
One step closer to controlling nuclear fusion; In August Robert J. Burke presents updates to the SPRFD HIF process [39] and Charles Helsley presents the Economics of SPRFD [40] at the 19th International HIF Symposium at Berkeley, California. Industry was there in support of ion generation for SPRFD.
Commonwealth Fusion Systems, a private company spun off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, plans what it calls the world's first grid-scale fusion power plant in Virginia, to generate ...
As of 2018, JT-60 holds the record for the highest value of the fusion triple product achieved: 1.77 × 10 28 K·s·m −3 = 1.53 × 10 21 keV·s·m −3. [4] [5] To date, JT-60 has the world record for the hottest ion temperature ever achieved (522 million °C); this record defeated the TFTR machine at Princeton in 1996. [6]