Tokamak nuclear scientists embark on fusion

A British nuclear fusion reactor has reached warmer temperatures than the center of the sun in a test that marks a key step towards clean energy without limits last summer.

The Tokomak reactor reached 15 million ° C reports The Daily Mail at an installation located in Oxfordshire as part of the preparations to power the British fusion power network by 2030, [19659003]. A plasma ball was hotter than the center of the sun, giving rise to the hope of a breakthrough imagined by physicists for over 50 years: nuclear fusion.

The difference between this project and a history of mock fusion is that it was not run by the government but by a company called Tokamak Energy.

Laboratory is a company called First Light Fusion, which plans to create the densest substance on Earth over the next year.

Both are part of a wave of merged start-ups that aim to succeed where the state has failed. is the process that the sun sinks. This implies that hydrogen atoms join to produce helium, releasing large amounts of energy but little radiation.

If fusion can work on Earth, it will provide clean energy as abundant as the oceans. However, this has never been made economical.

The most advanced state-funded project, called Iter, in the south of France, was exposed. by increasing costs and delays.

For many, the old joke about the merger is still topical: for 30 years, she has always been 30 years apart.

Jonathan Carling, chief executive of Tokamak Energy, said it was so. time for others to try – and serious investors are in agreement. Tokamak is backed by Legal & General and UK hedge fund billionaire David Harding. "Because we are privately funded, we can be more agile," said Carling.

His plan is based on ideas similar to those of Iter, who uses superconducting magnets to hold up a superheated plasma.

The devices his company used were smaller and cheaper.

Nick Hawker, co-founder of First Light Fusion, said his company's project also reflected the virtues of the private sector.

Type of fusion, firing projectiles at a target to create a moment of enormous pressure and heat.

Both say they can have demonstration devices by 2025.

Tokamak's goal is to power grid electricity by 2030. The private sector has achieved at least one thing then: the merger has gone from always in 30 years to just ten years.