Nuclear Fusion - The Latest
Sunday, April 29, 2012 - 18:40
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While cold fusion remains a pipe dream, fusion as an energy source for the future continues to be funded and improved. In nuclear fission, current nuclear energy, the nucleus of an atom is split, butin fusion two lightweight atoms join together. The biggest benefit is no explosion.The ITER project is seeking to turn nuclear fusion into reality and is making use of the Tokamak reactor for this purpose. Reactors of this type and the plasma used in them to carry out fusion have a number of control problems, and to solve them, electronics engineer Goretti Sevillano has come up with some tools in her thesis defended at the University of the Basque Country. read more
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