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2020-07-29 Science & Technology

World's largest nuclear fusion project that will replicate reactions in the SUN to create 'the ultimate clean energy source' begins assembly in France

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Posted by Skidmark 2020-07-29 10:23|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 What could go wrong.

Posted by 49 Pan 2020-07-29 12:31|| 2020-07-29 12:31|| Front Page Top

#2 I won't get excited until everyone has a Mr. Fusion device.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2020-07-29 13:04|| 2020-07-29 13:04|| Front Page Top

#3 "Let there be light"

last known message from the charred remains of the third planet in a star system with interesting artifacts on its orbiting companion satellite.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-07-29 14:07|| 2020-07-29 14:07|| Front Page Top

#4 Sea of Fire.

Sure, why not.

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-07-29 14:17|| 2020-07-29 14:17|| Front Page Top

#5 Pretty incredible. If it can work, if it can be downsized.

Posted by Woodrow 2020-07-29 16:43|| 2020-07-29 16:43|| Front Page Top

#6 Not to worry - Fusion — dubbed a 'miracle for our planet' — uses easy-to-source fuel and provides cheap, clean and safe energy without radioactive waste, or the risk of meltdown.

However, this will be done by creating a ring of charged, super-hot gas called a plasma — reaching some 270,000,000°F — which will be held in place by magnets. Electromagnets, one supposes.Hope they have a reliable power source for those!

Still, no one will remember the claims made in 2020 - The ITER project was launched in 2006 and had originally planned to conduct its first test run this year, to reach full fusion by 2023.

At the end of 2016, ITER director general reported that the new schedule would aim to see so-called 'first plasma' — to prove the reactor concept works — by December 2025, and full operation reached by the year 2035.

He admitted, however, that the plan would be 'challenging' to deliver and that further delays remained a possibility.

Posted by Bobby 2020-07-29 16:44|| 2020-07-29 16:44|| Front Page Top

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