Nuclear Fusion: The 'Holy Grail' of Energy Is Coming Sooner Than You Think – Newsbomb – News

The development of nuclear fusion is about a quantum leap

Nuclear fusion of the grid is coming much sooner than you think.

Commercial nuclear fusion has gone from science fiction to scientific fact in less than a decade. It's a quantum leap in superconductors, lasers and advanced materials that has suddenly changed the economics of fusion energy.

British company First Light Fusion announced last week that it had broken the world pressure record at Sandia National Laboratories in the United States, raising the maximum to 1.85 terapascals, five times the pressure in the Earth's core, according to The Telegraph.

A few days ago, a series of scientific research confirmed this Commonwealth Fusion Systems near Boston broke the world record for large-scale magnets With a field strength of 20 Tesla using the latest high-temperature superconducting object technology. This exceeds the threshold required for clean energy production, or “Q factor,” above 1.0.

“Overnight, it changed the cost per watt of a nuclear fusion reactor by a factor of nearly 40,” he said. Mr Dennis White of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). The March issue of IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity published six articles validating different aspects of the technology.

The “old” low-temperature magnets are made of niobium alloy that operates near absolute zero at -270 degrees Celsius. The new magnet raises the temperature by 4 Kelvin to 20 Kelvin using Rare earth barium oxide (ReBCO) with a radically new design. It combines superconductivity with intense magnetic force. This increases “several orders of magnitude” in fusion ability.

Commonwealth chief executive Bob Mumgaard told The Telegraph the game-changing technology did not exist 10 years ago and was still in its infancy five years ago. “The revolution is in superconductors. They are much more powerful.”