Overcoming the Impossible: Developing Nuclear Fusion
The
ITER project, an acronym for International Thermonuclear Experimental
Reactor, seeks to do the possible with impractical tools. There is no
doubt that humanity can accomplish fusion in a quick and dirty way by
making a bomb, or run reactions that don’t produce useful amounts of
energy outputs, but unlike fission the ability to run a steady state
reaction that produces more energy than it takes to drive the reaction
eludes us.The ITER effort is based on the tokamak, a donut looking thing
that circulates fuel plasma around endlessly…Read more...
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