{"id":1288965,"date":"2022-02-10T10:15:49","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T15:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1288965"},"modified":"2022-02-10T16:37:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T21:37:09","slug":"full-fusion-power-may-be-in-near-future-as-scientists-set-new-global-energy-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/full-fusion-power-may-be-in-near-future-as-scientists-set-new-global-energy-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Full Fusion Power May Be In Near-Future As Scientists Set New Global Energy Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffull-fusion-power-may-be-in-near-future-as-scientists-set-new-global-energy-record%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1288965&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1356572294-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>On Wednesday, the EuroFusion consortium, the umbrella organization of Europe\u2019s fusion research laboratories, announced that the Joint European Torus (JET), located in the United Kingdom, set a new global energy record, confirming that an era of full fusion power, a process which powers the sun, may be mere years away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe experiment at the Joint European Torus (JET) in Oxford on 21 December saw a super-hot plasma sustained for 5 seconds, producing a record 59 megajoules of heat energy. JET\u2019s previous record was 22 megajoules for less than a second,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg15621024-000-fusion-record\/\">set in 1997<\/a>,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2307548-fusion-energy-record-suggests-we-really-could-build-artificial-suns\/?utm_source=nsday&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NSDAY_100222\">New Scientist<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of scientists pursuing fusion power is to generate more power than is put in and keep that going for a sustained period. \u201cFusion takes place when atomic nuclei are brought close enough together that they merge, creating a heavier element. It\u2019s the process that powers stars, and it could produce vast amounts of energy from small amounts of hydrogen isotopes if we could reproduce the temperatures and pressures found in stars here on Earth,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2022\/02\/european-project-sets-a-record-for-fusion-energy-produced-by-a-tokamak\/\">ARS Technica<\/a> explained.<\/p>\n<p>New Scientist added, \u201cNuclear fusion holds the promise of a continuous low carbon power supply without the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2258859-the-uks-nuclear-waste-could-be-buried-underground-in-cumbria\/\">radioactive waste problem of its cousin<\/a>, nuclear power from fission. The new record is significant as it indicates commercial fusion power could become a reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFusion, the process that powers stars like our sun, promises a near-limitless green electricity source for the long term, using small amounts of fuel that can be sourced worldwide from inexpensive materials,\u201d The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority <a href=\"https:\/\/ccfe.ukaea.uk\/fusion-energy-record-demonstrates-powerplant-future\/\">echoed<\/a>, adding, \u201cAs pressures mount to address the effects of climate change through decarbonizing energy production, this success is a major step forward on fusion\u2019s roadmap as a safe, efficient, low carbon means of tackling the global energy crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The testing at JET is indicative that at the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), located in the south of France and boasting a larger tokamak (a doughnut-shaped structure that can house hydrogen plasma and have intense magnetic fields contain and compress it), the goal of producing more energy than put in could be achieved by 2025.<\/p>\n<p>EuroFusion team member Volker Naulin stated, \u201cIt\u2019s really confirmation that what has been calculated for ITER is not a fantasy number.\u201d Juan Matthews at the University of Manchester said, \u201cJET is getting close to breakeven, with power close to that being used to run the reactor. We must remember that JET is using real fuel with tritium as well as deuterium and these pulsed tests will be valuable in making sure ITER is able to get off to a running start once it begins operation. Very few fusion experiments are using tritium.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Bernard Bigot, Director General of ITER, said, \u201cA sustained pulse of deuterium-tritium fusion at this power level \u2013 nearly industrial scale \u2013 delivers a resounding confirmation to all of those involved in the global fusion quest. For the ITER Project, the JET results are a strong confidence builder that we are on the right track as we move forward toward demonstrating full fusion power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, the EuroFusion consortium, the umbrella organization of Europe\u2019s fusion research laboratories, announced that the Joint European Torus (JET), located in the United Kingdom, set a new global energy &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1288965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1288965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1288965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1288965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1288965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}