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L’instrument américain de fusion nucléaire NIF (pour "National Ignition Facility") a probablement atteint le seuil du breakeven, prouvant que la fusion nucléaire contrôlée peut générer plus d’énergie qu’elle n’en consomme. Cette première historique rapportée par le Financial Times stimule les espoirs de faire de la fusion nucléaire une source d’électricité propre.

Pulsar Fusion's main mission goal is to eventually harness its namesake, nuclear fusion, to build hyper-speed rocket technology. Nuclear fusion is the method the Sun and the stars use to produce vast amounts of energy over millennia.

Les physiciens et ingénieurs chinois vont-ils damer le pion à ITER et aux autres tokamaks ?

On peut installer plusieurs modules dans une même centrale pour répondre au cahier des charges de l’installation. La première centrale de NuScale, baptisée Carbon Free Power Project, devrait générer de l’électricité dès 2029. Elle contiendra au début six modules pour une puissance totale de 462 MW. Mais la NRC semble être d’accord pour faire monter la puissance jusqu’à 600 MW avec un total de 12 modules.

Long-pulse operation of a self-sustained fusion reactor using toroidal magnetic containment requires control over the content of alpha particles produced by D-T fusion reactions. On the one hand, MeV-class alpha particles must stay confined to heat the plasma. On the other hand, decelerated helium ash must be expelled before diluting the fusion fuel. Here, we report results of kinetic-magnetohydrodynamic hybrid simulations of a large tokamak plasma that confirm the existence of a parameter window where such energy-selective confinement can be accomplished by exploiting internal relaxation events known as sawtooth crashes.

General Fusion is a Burnaby, British Columbia company that has embraced a novel approach to producing nuclear fusion energy through Magnetized Target Fusion (MTF). MTF avoids the need for expensive high-power lasers or large superconducting magnets. Promising results to date place General Fusion on track to commercialize its technology later this decade, leading to the deployment of fusion energy power plants. The company plans to enter global energy markets in the 2030s at a price competitive with fossil fuels.

Most of the devices based on nuclear fusion reactions currently on the market do not present critical points regarding the production of radioactive waste or residues. Neutron generators have characteristics and technological solutions such as to exclude almost completely the production of radioactive waste during operation, apart from the tritiated targets of some generators which are withdrawn by the suppliers themselves and then disposed of as radioactive waste. The situation changes when we consider the experimental machines for nuclear fusion currently in operation and above all those under construction.

The American startup Zap Energy, created in 2017, is working on the development of a fusion reactor that does not use magnets. Its latest prototype is almost ready for its first tests, and the company claims its fusion power could be used in as little as a year! While other prototype reactors are still trying to reach the required power, many scientists are more than skeptical about this announcement.

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Seattle-based Zap Energy is using a lesser-known approach to nuclear fusion to build modular, garage-sized reactors. They are cheaper and don't require the large, incredibly powerful magnets used in traditional fusion experiments. Ultimately, they may also provide a quicker route to achieving commercially viable nuclear fusion.

The US military's portable nuclear reactor will have a capacity of up to 5 MWe and be ready for operational testing by 2024.

Fusion companies have made significant strides in early 2022 after raising a landmark $2.8 billion in 2021. In these first few months, Joint European Torus (JET) broke the 24-year-old fusion record – generating the highest sustained fusion energy pulse ever; First Light Fusion demonstrated fusion; and HB11 Energy demonstrated fusion of hydrogen and boron-11 using high-power lasers- producing 10x more fusion than expected. Additionally, there has been an influx of capital to support addressing critical engineering challenges, with First Light Fusion, Marvel Fusion, and Kyoto Fusioneering all raising significant funding rounds in February alone.

Selon le département américain de l'énergie et une enquête du média britannique, Financial Times, les Etats-Unis seraient parvenus à « une avancée scientifique majeure » en matière de production d'énergie grâce à la fusion nucléaire. Cette technique, qui repose sur le fait d'associer deux noyaux atomiques légers pour en créer un lourd contrairement à la fission actuellement utilisée, est considérée comme l'énergie de demain, car elle produit peu de déchets et par de gaz à effet de serre.

Fusion energy is considered by many as the holy grail for supplying all of our clean electricity needs. However, the old joke is that nuclear fusion is always 30 years away, no matter what advances or promises are made. But now there are several privately funded startups that are accelerating nuclear fusion development with the ultimate goal of commercializing electricity production much sooner than you might think possible.

Nuclear fusion could modernize the entire power grid with nearly-limitless energy! But when? Called TAE Technologies, the fusion energy developer claimed its reactors might generate energy at commercial scales by the end of the 2020s — using a novel ability to produce stable plasma at temperatures topping 50 million degrees Celsius. For comparison, this is more than twice the temperature of the core of the sun!

Les scientifiques voient dans les réacteurs à fusion nucléaire le Saint Graal de la production d'énergie des prochaines décennies. La fusion des noyaux

Inside the ITER tokamak, there will be many diagnostic devices that will be the “eyes and ears” of the machine. They will inform experts on the relevant parameters of the plasma to control the fusion reaction. As it takes place, neutrons of 2.5 MeV and 14 MeV will be produced in the vacuum vessel. The Radial Neutron Camera (RNC) will detect them and assess the performance of the reaction – the more neutrons, the more successful.

The development of a whole device model (WDM) for a fusion reactor is critical for the science of magnetically confined fusion plasmas. In the next decade, the ITER fusion reactor project will realize plasmas well beyond the physics regimes accessible in any previous experiments. Computer simulation offers the ability to gain insight into these regimes as ITER is being built and tested, first with deuterium–deuterium fuel by 2025–2026 and then adapted to perform higher power deuterium–tritium experiments by 2035. The US Department of Energy (DOE) has identified WDM as a high-priority need for “assessments of reactor performance in order to minimize risk and qualify operating scenarios for next-step burning plasma experiments.”

Startorus Fusion is set to build China’s first commercial fusion reactor with the funding being used to build a spherical Tokamak fusion device in Xixian New Area, Shaanxi Province. The device, which is expected to be installed within a year, confines plasma and heats ions to about 17 million degrees Celsius to test its commercial potential.

Geothermal energy is basically heat within the earth, and it has the potential to be a continuous power source for many countries across the world. It is a renewable energy source because it is continuously produced inside our planet's crust: heat generated during the planet's formation and the radioactive decay of materials generates heat, which is stored in rocks and fluids in the earth's core.

The Commonwealth Fusion System (CFS), named for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, will continue its established collaboration with MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC), a research lab devoted to the study of plasmas, fusion science, and technology. This type of partnership style is pretty common in cutting-edge scientific research where there are patents and proprietary technologies at play.

Nuclear fusion is the way the stars produce energy. We have tried to reproduce nuclear fusion on earth since the fifties. Recently, many new projects in nuclear fusion are taking off, backed by public and private investment. Many of these projects are achieving early milestones and are seen in the press. At the same time, the UK government is working to develop a regulatory framework that considers possible risks to the health and safety of fusion while not discouraging research and development. For this event, the Hazards Forum will bring experts from different areas of risk management to provide a complete picture of the risks surrounding new fusion technical developments.