Fusion power is a proposed form of power generation that would generate electricity by using heat from nuclear fusion reactions. In a fusion process, two lighter atomic nuclei combine to form a heavier nucleus, while releasing energy. Devices designed to harness this energy are known as …

2024年12月21日 · Fusion reactor, a device to produce electrical power from the energy released in a nuclear fusion reaction. The use of nuclear fusion reactions for electricity generation remains theoretical but could provide a safe, clean, and inexhaustible source of energy if developed.

2022年12月13日 · For the first time ever, a reactor's core has been detected putting out more energy than was put into it — a small but consequential step in the race to unleash a near-limitless, zero-carbon...

2025年1月21日 · In 2022, the U.S. National Ignition Facility's fusion reactor briefly achieved ignition in its core using a different experimental method to EAST, relying on quick bursts of energy, but the ...

2025年1月17日 · Measuring the properties of the core of a thermonuclear fusion reactor is fundamental for the deployment of fusion as an energy source.

Nuclear fusion is a reaction in which two or more atomic nuclei (for example, nuclei of hydrogen isotopes deuterium and tritium), combine to form one or more atomic nuclei and neutrons. The difference in mass between the reactants and products is manifested as either the release or absorption of energy.

ITER (initially the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, iter meaning "the way" or "the path" in Latin [2] [3] [4]) is an international nuclear fusion research and engineering megaproject aimed at creating energy through a fusion process similar to that of the Sun.

2025年1月6日 · This confined plasma core doesn’t touch the walls around it. However, the edge of the plasma is not confined, and it interacts with the wall materials. We study the interaction of the plasma edge with the reactor wall to better understand and predict the performance and useful lifetimes of fusion reactor walls.

2021年4月2日 · A fusion reactor is basically a large-scale electromagnetic and nuclear device which requires extremely high-level integration of engineering and physics. Steady-state control of the plasma is a primary demand.

Although different isotopes of light elements can be paired to achieve fusion, the deuterium-tritium (D-T) reaction has been identified as the most achievable and the most efficient. At the core of fusion science is plasma physics.