Nuclear fusion primed for breakthrough as limitless energy technology now ‘viable reality’

It will involve joint technology development, shared use of equipment and facilities and “associated secondment of staff between the two organisations”. 

The researchers noted that in addition to private investment, the technology is improving by leaps and bounds, with new records being broken regularly. 

In 2021, MIT scientists and Commonwealth Fusion Systems developed a record-breaking magnet that will allow them to build a compact fusion device called SPARC “that is substantially smaller, lower cost, and on a faster timeline”.

In recent years, several fusion experiments have also reached the all-important milestone of sustaining plasma temperatures of 100 million degrees Celsius or above. These include the EAST experiment in China, Korea’s flagship experiment KSTAR, and UK-based company Tokamak Energy.

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Article source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1706375/nuclear-fusion-breakthrough-limitless-energy-technology-viable-reality