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Building the World's Most Powerful Laser

Thursday, October 15th, 2009 - 09:33:47 - Anuradha Menon

Researchers at the National Ignition Facility demonstrated a 1.1 megajoule laser designed to ignite nuclear fusion reactions by 2010. But the...

A New Approach to Fusion

Friday, July 31st, 2009 - 10:16:37 - Anuradha Menon

General Fusion, a startup in Vancouver, Canada, says it can build a prototype fusion power plant within the next decade and do it for less than a...

Self-Sustaining Fusion Reactions

Friday, July 3rd, 2009 - 10:33:47 - Anuradha Menon

It's late April and workers are assembling the last parts of the National Ignition Facility (NIF), a sprawling building covering the area of three...

Fusion Factory Starts Up

Saturday, February 28th, 2009 - 14:09:30 - Anuradha Menon

Later this month in California, construction will be completed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility, or NIF, the...

MIT Energy Efficient Fusion Power
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009 - Janice Karin
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are looking into using radio waves to control plasmas and...

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New Insights on Fusion Power

Thursday, December 4th, 2008 - 16:17:57 - Anuradha Menon

Research carried out at MIT's Alcator C-Mod fusion reactor may have brought the promise of fusion as a future power source a bit closer to reality...

Fly to Mars With Spaceship Force Field

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 - 12:54:29 - Anuradha Menon

According to the international space agencies, 'Space Weather' is the single greatest obstacle to deep space travel. Radiation from the sun and...

Fusion Reactor Faces Growing Costs

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 - 20:44:53 - Ehud Rattner

A massive international nuclear fusion experiment planned for Cadarache, France, is set to cost up to 30% more than anticipated and be delayed by as...

Ford's Hydrogen Car Sets New Record
Tuesday, August 21st, 2007 - Iddo Genuth
Fusion Hydrogen 999 - Ford's 500-horsepower fuel cell race car, recently broke the land speed record at the Bonneville Salt...