University of Tennessee, ORNL Lead National Team to Study Materials Performance in Nuclear Fusion Reactors

Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 11:31 in Physics & Chemistry

Power from nuclear fusion reactors has the promise to be safe, sustainable and limitless. But science has not been able to bring fusion energy to the commercial energy market. This is partly because the operating limits of the reactor materials are not known. A team of researchers at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in collaboration with seven other institutions, is trying to change that.

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