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Date: November 15, 2014 at 09:40:50
From: Steve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Quest for Nuclear Fusion |
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RDMxKdylJw |
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Technology Update: Way to New Energy (E67)
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Published on May 6, 2014
On this award-winning show of Technology Update, we check up on one of largest international scientific collaborations ever, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor. ITER has the potential to produce unlimited clean power by making the Holy Grail of energy production, nuclear fusion, a reality. Our journey takes us to the ITER construction site in sunny Cadarache in the south of France, the home of the first tokamak fusion reactor at the Kurchatovsky Institute in Moscow, the Ioffe Institute in Saint Petersburg, which is the birthplace of nuclear physics in Russia, as well as some of the suppliers for ITER dotted around Russia. However, none of it would be possible were it not for the imagination of one particularly talented Red Army soldier.
This show was first aired at the end of October 2013. It was awarded a Bronze World Medal at the prestigious New York Festivals in the Science and Technology category in April 2014.
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Date: November 17, 2014 at 07:41:50
From: Steve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Skunk Works Advances In Fusion |
URL: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29710811 |
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Lockheed Martin is working on a device that could become a compact fusion reactor
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Aerospace giant Lockheed Martin is doing its best to shatter my favourite science cliche.
"Nuclear fusion is just 30 years away - and always will be."
The advanced projects team at Lockheed, known as Skunk Works, has unveiled a plan to develop a compact, magnetic fusion device in less than a decade.
OK, Skunk Works has a history of developing secret military aircraft over the past 70 years, but nuclear fusion?
What have they been smoking, you might say.
The team believe they have found a new way of squeezing atoms together so they fuse and generate energy, in a small-scale magnetic device.
As a result, they aim to build a reactor a 10th the size of current approaches.
They argue that their device, which would fit on the back of a truck, could produce 100 megawatts (MW) of power and use just 25kg of fuel in a year.
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If they do have some innovative ideas they'd be fools to tell us”
Prof Steve Cowley Culham Centre for Fusion Energy
That would be enough to power a city with 80,000 homes. The aim is to have a prototype in five years and working model in 10. see link
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