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Nuclear fusion breakthrough: 'Holy grail' of power production is closer to reality as the world's biggest reactor - capable of reaching 200 MILLION degrees Celsius - is turned on in Japan
The Daily Mail ^ | 4 December 2023 | Jonathan Chadwick

Posted on 12/04/2023 7:32:09 AM PST by Alas Babylon!

It could usher an era of limitless clean, safe and affordable energy to meet the world's demand.

Now, the 'holy grail' of power production – nuclear fusion, which makes the sun and the stars shine – has come a step closer.

Scientists have switched on JT-60SA, a £500 million fusion device measuring around 40 feet in diameter, located in Naka north of Tokyo, Japan.

JT-60SA contains swirling plasma heated up 200 million degrees Celsius (360 million degrees Fahrenheit).

This is the threshold where hydrogen atoms can begin to fuse into helium, releasing sustainable energy in the process that could put an end to fossil fuels.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fusion; nuclearpower; renewables
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To: Alas Babylon!

“has come a step closer”

While we have no idea how many ‘steps’ it’ll take...


41 posted on 12/04/2023 8:13:24 AM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: Alas Babylon!

What could wrong?

Godzilla here we come.


42 posted on 12/04/2023 8:14:33 AM PST by qaz123
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To: piytar

Exactly. This should be marketed towards solving poverty in third world countries. Access to reliable, cheap energy is what made America great. It could lift everyone.
unfortunately, we know the truth and it isn’t their goals are not altruistic.


43 posted on 12/04/2023 8:14:55 AM PST by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness. ])
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To: Alas Babylon!

Is this a BOOM?


44 posted on 12/04/2023 8:16:14 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Soros on assisting the Nazis with the Holocaust: "That's when my character was made.")
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To: Jeff Chandler
You want Godzilla? Because that’s how you get Godzilla.

Of course, anyone knows that. Soon, they'll be screaming in Tokyo, "Godzirra, Godzirra!"
45 posted on 12/04/2023 8:16:38 AM PST by salmon76 (…"we have obtained dirt on Hillary Cli…" (Babylon Bee))
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To: Alas Babylon!

It’s just TWENTY YEARS AWAY!


46 posted on 12/04/2023 8:16:47 AM PST by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: Go Gordon

SOOOOOOOOOOO——”GLOBAL WARNING” is our major problem & this equipment can produce WHAT TEMPS????


47 posted on 12/04/2023 8:18:28 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: Alas Babylon!

it takes a lot of energy to heat something to 200 million degrees.

The article didn’t say if they actually achieved fusion, and more importantly - did they actually GAIN energy from the process.


48 posted on 12/04/2023 8:19:47 AM PST by PGR88
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To: pgyanke

Oh no
There goes Tokyo
Go go Godzilla!


49 posted on 12/04/2023 8:21:26 AM PST by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: griswold3
Exactly. This should be marketed towards solving poverty in third world countries. Access to reliable, cheap energy is what made America great.

Do you really want Somolia to be GREAT?

50 posted on 12/04/2023 8:22:47 AM PST by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: griswold3
Besides, think of Godzilla in Somolia.

He'd have ready access to AK47's and RPGs.

If he didn't starve first.

51 posted on 12/04/2023 8:23:58 AM PST by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Fusion will not be made viable in the USA. We have the DoE which exists to protect the status quo. It’ll be made viable elsewhere. Maybe Japan or South Korea. We’ll have to import the tech.


52 posted on 12/04/2023 8:25:07 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: ridesthemiles
SOOOOOOOOOOO——”GLOBAL WARNING” is our major problem & this equipment can produce WHAT TEMPS????

There's a temperature where Global Warming no longer matters.

I'd say 200 million degrees should do it.

53 posted on 12/04/2023 8:25:23 AM PST by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: Red Badger

LMAO! 🤣


54 posted on 12/04/2023 8:26:50 AM PST by dragonblustar (You best start believing in Bible prophecies, you’re in one.)
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To: Alas Babylon!

They will tout fusion until it actually works.

THEN they will notice that the deuterium-tritium fusion reaction produces high-energy neutrons in addition to helium, and the effect those neutrons have on the reactor components, and declare that fusion is bad too.


55 posted on 12/04/2023 8:33:58 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so stupid people won’t be offended)
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To: piytar

“Theoretically, there is another “input..”

That input was gravity.

L


56 posted on 12/04/2023 8:38:00 AM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: Alas Babylon!

The risk I hope they have developed a fool proof answer for is how do they insure the sustainability of the magnetic field that heeps the plasma from melting the whole thing down. If something were to interfere with, reduce, or shut off the magnetic field surrounding the plasma, the entire plant would melt down.


57 posted on 12/04/2023 8:39:53 AM PST by Wuli ( ,)
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To: Alas Babylon!

You need tritium (radioactive hydrogen isotope with two neutrons). You get tritium by hitting lithium with neutrons.

You need a FISSION reactor breeding tritium from lithium in order to have tritium for fusion. Yes, the D-T reaction generates high-energy neutrons that can breed more tritium if they line the reactor with lithium, but that only works if you have no losses.


58 posted on 12/04/2023 8:40:32 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so stupid people won’t be offended)
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To: butlerweave

If that thing blowup, it will take out half the world.


59 posted on 12/04/2023 8:42:45 AM PST by chopperk
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To: butlerweave
Electric everything eventually, if technological civilization doesn't destroy itself.

Meanwhile, our own elites are pushing it in a way that hurts everybody while deliberately sabotaging our electrical infrastructure.

If ever fusion turns out to work as promised, I predict our elites will find a reason to be against it.

60 posted on 12/04/2023 8:46:14 AM PST by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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