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Twisty nuclear fusion reactor gets twice as hot as the sun.
The world’s biggest stellarator has overcome a heat-loss problem holding fusion back.
We’re one step closer to a future of near-limitless clean energy.
Physicists in Germany just found a way to minimize a major heat-loss problem plaguing a promising kind of nuclear fusion reactor called a “stellarator.”
The future of clean energy: Nuclear fusion occurs when the nuclei of two atoms merge into one. This releases an enormous amount of energy — it’s literally enough to power the sun and other stars.
If we could harness the power of nuclear fusion on Earth, it would be an absolute game changer in the battle against climate change.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.To put the heat problem into a little perspective. Lightning which is a common and widespread natural occurrence as you know, is five times hotter than the sun.
OK, I would not stand inside a fusion reactor, any more than I would want to stand in front of a bolt of lightning, but I think that the first may be easier to avoid.
Fernapple
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Jan 11, 2022
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The Chinese are building an artificial sun reactor, spending a trillion dollars.
Beowulfsfriend
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Jan 11, 2022
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yvilletom
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Jan 11, 2022
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We are all ignorant in the vast unrealized knowledge. Scientists split the atom in the middle of Chicago. I still do not understand how they did that without obliteration America's major heartland megalopolis.
Mooolah
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Jan 11, 2022
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They split only a few of their atoms. The Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs split all of their atoms.
I always thought that splitting one atom released the energy. I have so much to learn. I am going to research this before I forget to. Now what was that I was going to look into. Hmmmm. =0}
Moderating control rods... (Rods filled with neutron absorbing atoms that quench the chain reaction.)
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