A recent experiment showed this virtually limitless form of clean power is possible on Earth. Now, one of the most complex energy projects in history aims to make nuclear fusion a reality for the whole planet.
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May 25, 2022
Scientists Turn Nuclear Waste Into Diamond Batteries Lasting 1,000’s of Years
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: nuclear energy
Nuclear power is considered a clean energy source because it has zero carbon dioxide emissions; yet, it produces massive amount of waste.
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May 21, 2022
How Logs of Fruit Pulp Replace Firewood and Charcoal | World Wide Waste
Posted by Raphael Ramos in categories: business, finance, nuclear energy
Traditional Argentine barbecues date back to the 16th century. One inventor created a new twist on the custom, turning discarded fruit from cider production into logs that can replace firewood and charcoal.
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May 17, 2022
A new law unchains fusion energy
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: nuclear energy, particle physics
Physicists at EPFL, within a large European collaboration, have revised one of the fundamental laws that has been foundational to plasma and fusion research for over three decades, even governing the design of megaprojects like ITER. The update shows that we can actually safely use more hydrogen fuel in fusion reactors, and therefore obtain more energy than previously thought.
Fusion is one of the most promising sources of future energy. It involves two atomic nuclei combining into one, thereby releasing enormous amounts of energy. In fact, we experience fusion every day: the sun’s warmth comes from hydrogen nuclei fusing into heavier helium atoms.
There is currently an international fusion research megaproject called ITER, which aims to replicate the fusion processes of the sun to create energy on the Earth. Its aim is the creation of high temperature plasma that provides the right environment for fusion to occur, producing energy.
May 11, 2022
MIT joins a major startup backed by Bill Gates to build a viable fusion machine
Posted by Gemechu Taye in category: nuclear energy
50-milliwatt Water Boiler reactor went critical at Los Alamos National Laboratory. It held about 20 ounces of uranium dissolved in a water-filled, 12-inch sphere. It was the first nuclear reactor to use enriched uranium, and the first critical assembly built at the lab.
May 9, 2022
Scientists Discover Unexplained Abundance of Rare Nuclear Fusion Fuel on Earth
Posted by Josh Seeherman in category: nuclear energy
Helium-3, a potential source of limitless clean energy, may be ten times more common on our planet than previously thought, reports a new study.
May 6, 2022
A new system could generate usable oxygen and fuel from lunar soil
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: nuclear energy, space travel
Performed by Moxie — the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment — the strategy definitely incited hope for extraterrestrial survival. Future human missions could take versions of Moxie to Mars instead of carrying oxygen from Earth to sustain them.
But, Moxie is powered by a nuclear battery onboard.
“In the near future, we will see the crewed spaceflight industry developing rapidly,” said Yingfang Yao, a material scientist at Nanjing University.
Apr 30, 2022
Long-awaited accelerator ready to explore origins of elements
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: nuclear energy, physics
The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University (MSU) in East Lansing had a budget of $730 million, most of it funded by the US Department of Energy, with a $94.5 million contribution from the state of Michigan. MSU contributed an additional $212 million in various ways, including the land. It replaces an earlier National Science Foundation accelerator, called the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL), at the same site. Construction of FRIB started in 2014 and was completed late last year, “five months early and on budget”, says nuclear physicist Bradley Sherrill, who is FRIB’s science director.
For decades, nuclear physicists had been pushing for a facility of its power — one that could produce rare isotopes orders of magnitude faster than is possible with the NSCL and similar accelerators worldwide. The first proposals for such a machine came in the late 1980s, and consensus was reached in the 1990s. “The community was adamant that we need to get a tool like this,” says Witold Nazarewicz, a theoretical nuclear physicist and FRIB’s chief scientist.
