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The world's largest fusion reactor ITER, worth $28 billion, will be operational in 15 years

The international experimental thermonuclear reactor (ITER) has been completed but will not operate for another 15 years, according to scientists. The world's largest thermonuclear reactor, assembled in France, was originally supposed to start operat...

Fusion record: 50 million °C for 6 minutes at the WEST reactor maintained by French and American scientists

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May 7, 2024 at 11:06 AM Comments (0)Views (8)

Fusion record: 50 million °C for 6 minutes at the WEST reactor maintained by French and American scientists

A new record of thermonuclear fusion has been achieved by researchers from the US Department of Energy, the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, and the French Commission on Alternative and Atomic Energy in the WEST tokamak with a tungsten wall. For ...