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Notes on the NIF nuclear fusion breakthrough
My explainer/analysis of the US nuclear fusion breakthrough was published today. Some stuff didn’t make it to the final draft for space and tone constraints; I’m publishing that below. 1. While most US government officials present at the announcement of the … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Scicomm
Tagged central hotspot ignition, climate finance, engineering gain, ITER, Lawson criterion, National Ignition Facility, nuclear fusion, Paris Agreement, Rayleigh-Taylor instability
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US fusion bhashan
Nuclear fusion? Yay! Climate finance? Shh! Continue reading
Posted in Op-eds
Tagged climate finance, Jennifer Granholm, Joe Biden, National Ignition Facility, nuclear fusion, US government
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Better nuclear fusion – thanks to math from biology
A new study discusses a way to make nuclear fusion devices more efficient by applying equations used in systems biology. Continue reading
Posted in Scicomm
Tagged diverter, Kolmogorov model, Large Helical Device, Lota-Volterra equations, magnetic islands, nuclear fusion, plasma current, plasma recombination, separatrix, stellarator, tokamak, X-point diverter
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60 years of ‘Tsar Bomba’, history’s most powerful nuke
This post was originally published on October 31, 2018. I republished it once in 2020 after Rosatom, the Russian nuclear energy corporation, released 40 minutes of previously classified footage of RDS-220’s explosion on August 28, 2020 (embedded below). Watch this … Continue reading
Posted in Science
Tagged Alex Wellerstein, Andrei Sakharov, Arzamas-16, John F. Kennedy, lead tamper, Nikita Khrushchev, nuclear fusion, RDS-220, RIPPLE
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What is a fusion reaction?
The Copernican February 21, 2014 Last week, the National Ignition Facility, USA, announced that it had breached the first step in triggering a fusion reaction. But what is a fusion reaction? Here are some answers from Prof. Bora – which … Continue reading
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Tagged deuterium, electrical energy, fusion power, inertial confinement, ITER, magnetic confinement, National Ignition Facility, nuclear fusion, tokamak, tritium
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