The Super X Divertor sounds like some fantasy invention from a 1950s Popular Mechanics. But it’s a real device that helps enable two eco-friendly processes: Generating zero carbon-footprint power, and ...
For every fusion facility around the world, it is striving for steady state fusion reaction with operation period as long as possible. However, it is not easy. Many challenges stand in the way.
AUSTIN, TX and BELLEVUE, WA / ACCESSWIRE / February 21, 2024 / ExoFusion, a leader in the private fusion energy space, announces breakthroughs in confinement optimization using its Super-XT divertor™, ...
The Korean artificial sun, KSTAR, has completed divertor upgrades, allowing it to operate for extended periods sustaining high-temperature plasma over the 100 million degrees. The Korea Institute of ...
Temperatures of more than 10,000°C and a hail of charged particles from the fusion fuel (plasma): These are extreme conditions that the exhaust wall (divertor) of future fusion power plants will need ...
Connecting plasma physics and engineering aspects in innovative technology design and fusion machine operation was the focus of the third IAEA technical meeting on divertor concepts, held in Vienna ...
SEATTLE, WA and AUSTIN, TX / ACCESSWIRE / July 19, 2023 / ExoFusion, a startup focused on the shortest path to Commercially Viable Fusion (CVF) announces seed funding and ambitious plans for the ...
To harness the forces that power the Sun, researchers heat fuel to such a high temperature that atoms melt into electrons and nuclei to form a hot, gaseous soup called plasma. The plasma can rip ...
Nuclear fusion reactors are highly powerful technologies that can generate energy by fusing (i.e., joining) two light atomic nuclei to form a heavier nucleus. These fusion reactions release large ...