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☆ An 'artificial sun' achieved a record-breaking fusion experiment, bringing us closer to clean, limitless energy
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-06 | by ( Jenny Mcgrath | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

A fusion reactor in southern France achieved a significant milestone toward clean, limitless energy. The fusion reactor, WEST, created a super-hot plasma and sustained it for a record-breaking 6 minutes. AdvertisementA fusion reactor in southern France, called WEST, just achieved an important milestone that brings us one step closer to clean, sustainable, nearly limitless energy. Fusion energy is more powerful than any form of energy we have today. Commercial fusion energy is still likely decades away, but Delgado-Aparicio thinks they're making steps toward "this big goal of giving energy to humankind."

Persons: —, Luis Delgado, Aparicio, PPPL's, they're, Roux, it's, Delgado, PPPL, Julian Stratenschulte, Tullio Barbui, Novimir Pablant, Delgadot, KSTAR Organizations: WEST, Service, New, Princeton Plasma Physics, NASA Solar Dynamics, CEA, Roux WEST, Getty, Atomic Energy Commission, ITER, Commonwealth Fusion Systems, SPARC Locations: France, Princeton, French

☆ Nuclear fusion experiment sets record for time at 100 million degrees Celsius
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-01 | by ( Laura Paddison | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Often referred to as the holy grail of climate solutions clean energy, fusion has the potential to provide limitless energy without planet-warming carbon pollution. KSTAR’s work “will be of great help to secure the predicted performance in ITER operation in time and to advance the commercialization of fusion energy,” Si-Woo Yoon said. This announcement adds to a number of other nuclear fusion breakthroughs. But commercializing nuclear fusion still remains a long way off as scientists work to solve fiendish engineering and scientific difficulties. Nuclear fusion “is not ready yet and therefore it can’t help us with the climate crisis now,” said Aneeqa Khan, research fellow in nuclear fusion at the University of Manchester in the UK.

Persons: Woo Yoon, ”, Aneeqa Khan, Angela Dewan Organizations: CNN — Scientists, KSTAR Research, Korean Institute of Fusion Energy, CNN, International, Reactor, Lawrence Livermore, Oxford, University of Manchester Locations: South Korea, France, United States

☆ Корейское искусственное солнце установило мировой рекорд
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-02 | by ( Mld Media Srl | ) noi.md time to read: +2 min

Южнокорейский токамак KSTAR установил мировой рекорд: учёным удалось удержать плазму с температурой ионов более 100 млн градусов Цельсия в магнитном поле в течение 20 секунд. Для сравнения — новый китайский токамак HL-2M теоретически позволит разогревать плазму до 150 млн градусов, но удержать её будет способен только около 10 секунд. До сих пор другие термоядерные реакторы кратковременно удерживали плазму при температуре 100 млн градусов или выше. Директор Исследовательского центра KSTAR в KFE Си-Ву Юн (Si-Woo Yoon) считает достижение важной вехой к обузданию энергии плазмы на пути к созданию в будущем коммерческого термоядерного реактора. И к 2025 году учёные надеются добиться на KSTAR удержания плазмы в течение 300 секунд.

Persons: —, KSTAR KFE, Woo Yoon Organizations: Корейский институт термоядерной энергии (), Сеульский национальный университет (), Колумбийский университет, Исследовательский центр Locations: США, Земля, Солнце, СиВу Юн

☆ "Soarele artificial" din Coreea de Sud a stabilit un nou record mondial: 100 de milioane de grade Celsius
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-28 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +2 min

Un dispozitiv de fuziune supraconductoare din Coreea de Sud denumit KSTAR, cunoscut sub numele de "Soarele artificial coreean", a reușit să stabilească un nou record mondial, prin menținerea plasmei la temperatură ridicată timp de 20 de secunde, cu o temperatură a ionului de peste 100 de milioane de grade (Celsius), scrie The Science Time, citat de digi24.ro. Centrul de cercetare KSTAR de la Institutul Coreean de Energie de Fuziune a anunțat că, într-o cercetare comună cu Universitatea Națională din Seul și Universitatea Columbia din Statele Unite, a reușit să mențină plasma timp de 20 de secunde cu o temperatură a ionului mai mare de 100 de milioane de grade. Pentru comparație, miezul Soarelui atinge aproximativ 15 milioane de grade. Este un nou record, după cel stabilit anterior în 2019, când același dispozitiv a reușit să mențină o temperatură de 100 de milioane de grade pentru 8 secunde. Coreea de Sud vrea să dezvolte centrale electrice de fuziune pentru a acoperi necesarul de energie al țării.

Persons: Woo Organizations: Universitatea Națională, Universitatea Columbia Locations: Coreea de Sud, Seul, Statele Unite

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