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Science > Physics |
| User: |
"Sam Wormley" |
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02 Sep 2005 10:20:39 AM |
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Europe plans laser-fusion facility |
Europe plans laser-fusion facility
http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/9/9/2/1
2 September 2005
Laser physicists in Europe have put forward plans to build a £500m
facility to study a new approach to laser fusion. A panel of scientists
from seven European Union countries believes that a "fast ignition"
laser facility could make a significant contribution to fusion
research, as well as supporting experiments in other areas of physics.
The facility could be up and running by the middle of the next decade.
The laser would be used to compress and heat a small capsule of
deuterium and tritium until the nuclei are hot enough to undergo
nuclear fusion and produce helium and neutrons. In a reactor the energy
of the neutrons would be used to generate electricity without the
emission of greenhouse gases or the generation of long-lived nuclear
waste.
See: http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/9/9/2/1
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| User: "G=EMC^2 Glazier" |
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| Title: Re: Europe plans laser-fusion facility |
02 Sep 2005 05:26:51 PM |
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Hi Sam You can bet it will work on a "pulse" laser with the deuterium
placed in a gold capsules.and zapped by three lasers simultaneously all
releasing heat captured in an enclosed bubble the size of the Houston
Astradome. An invention of mine that I put together in 1967.
Beert
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