Fusion

The world's largest nuclear fusion project began its five-year assembly phase on Tuesday in southern France, with the first ultra-hot plasma expected to be generated in late 2025.
Engineers started construction of the world's largest nuclear fusion project in southern France, with operations planned to begin in late 2025.
The UK government plans to increase public R&D investment to £22bn per year by 2024-25, investing in people, ideas and industries in sectors including nuclear fusion and electric vehicles.
Leadership in key technologies - The government will invest over £900 million to ensure UK businesses are leading the way in high-potential technology and sectors, including nuclear fusion, space, electric vehicles, and life sciences.
£800 million is going to set up a new high-risk high-reward UK research agency modelled on the American Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and £900 million to supporting nuclear fusion technology, the National Space Strategy and Space Innovation Fund, and the e-vehicle supply chain.
China plans to land humans on the Moon by 2030 and begin mining Helium-3, a valuable isotope used in nuclear fusion that the Moon has in abundance.
A tokamak, like the huge one that will reach 200 million Celsius in China next year, is a nuclear fusion plasma reactor where extremely hot, charged plasma spins and generates virtually limitless energy.
The UK will accelerate efforts to realise nuclear fusion energy through investment in a new UK fusion reactor design programme, known as STEP, which aims to deliver the world's first commercially viable fusion power plant by 2040.
A virtually infinite source of energy, the controlled nuclear fusion of hydrogen, will probably be tapped within 50 years.
An international research team believes that, with a new approach, nuclear fusion could be only 15 years away from being hooked up to a national energy grid.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge will work with a private firm to develop technology for producing energy from nuclear fusion within the next 15 years.
Nuclear fusion could be the best future source to obtain great amounts of electric energy.
Scientists in Germany have switched on a nuclear fusion experiment that they hope will provide a solution to finding clean and safe nuclear power.
A new method for optimising the initiation of nuclear fusion reactions could mark a major step forward in the development of commercial fusion power.
A German nuclear fusion experiment has produced a special super-hot gas which scientists hope will eventually lead to clean, cheap energy.
There will also be nuclear fusion for space propulsion (actually easier than beating coal or natural gas for energy production).
New commercially-available superconductors could enable MIT to build an operational nuclear fusion reactor in as little as ten years.
Nuclear fusion or some other breakthrough will finally take hold.
Others will advocate competing versions of Horizon 3 (for example there is a 'nuclear fusion' version, which offers future abundance by a different route).

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Last updated: 09 August 2020