Landmark confirmations of physics concept, together with an power manufacturing breakthrough on the finish of the yr, have turned fusion energy stations into an engineering problem relatively than a physics one
Physics
14 December 2022
Fusion for Power/Cyril Abad
There’s a joke that fusion energy is 30 years away and at all times might be. However 2022 has seen data damaged and hypotheses confirmed by experiments. The remaining hurdles are points for engineers, not physicists, Lee Margetts on the College of Manchester, UK, advised New Scientist earlier this yr.
In February, the Joint European Torus reactor close to Oxford within the UK sustained super-hot plasma for five seconds, producing a document 59 megajoules of power. The hope is that ITER, a bigger reactor being inbuilt France, will construct on this as soon as it’s operating in 2025.
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