Nuclear fusion in your back yard

[konradv]

Now THAT would be a paradigm shift!

DailyTech - Man Builds Homemade Nuclear Reactor in NY

 

[waltky]

Granny says dey gonna end up blowin' up the world...

Scientists Cite Advances in Controlled Fusion Research
February 13, 2014

American scientists who have been trying to produce energy from nuclear fusion say they have moved a big step forward in their research, which aims to harness the process originally used in hydrogen bombs to produce clean, abundant energy.

Scientists from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory report they were able to create a type of fusion reaction by bombarding a microscopic pellet of fuel with beams from 192 powerful lasers to compress its component parts - hydrogen isotopes known as deuterium and tritium - and fuse them together at the atomic level. This generated large amounts of heat and other nuclear reactions that together represented more energy than the fuel originally possessed.

This undated image provided by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory shows a deuterium and tritium capsule, sphere in window at center, inside a cylindrical hohlraum container about 0.4 inches tall, which are used in the controlled fusion process

The fusion of atomic nuclei is the same process that fuels stars throughout the universe, including our sun. Scientists at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory's National Ignition Facility are working on a much smaller scale, of course. Their ultimate goal -- creating a sustainable, controllable fusion reaction that is a net positive source of energy -- is some years away.

A practical method of generating energy from fusion has been a physicists' dream for decades. Although fusion is at the heart of the hydrogen warheads the world superpowers built in the 20th century, the process of fusion itself would not produce the dangerous radiation that is created by modern nuclear power generators, which use nuclear fission to create energy from enriched uranium fuel.

Scientists Cite Advances in Controlled Fusion Research

 

[Mr. H.]

Waltky, doin' his thang since Feb 2011.

 

[flacaltenn]

Granny says dey gonna end up blowin' up the world...

Scientists Cite Advances in Controlled Fusion Research
February 13, 2014

American scientists who have been trying to produce energy from nuclear fusion say they have moved a big step forward in their research, which aims to harness the process originally used in hydrogen bombs to produce clean, abundant energy.

Scientists from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory report they were able to create a type of fusion reaction by bombarding a microscopic pellet of fuel with beams from 192 powerful lasers to compress its component parts - hydrogen isotopes known as deuterium and tritium - and fuse them together at the atomic level. This generated large amounts of heat and other nuclear reactions that together represented more energy than the fuel originally possessed.

This undated image provided by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory shows a deuterium and tritium capsule, sphere in window at center, inside a cylindrical hohlraum container about 0.4 inches tall, which are used in the controlled fusion process

The fusion of atomic nuclei is the same process that fuels stars throughout the universe, including our sun. Scientists at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory's National Ignition Facility are working on a much smaller scale, of course. Their ultimate goal -- creating a sustainable, controllable fusion reaction that is a net positive source of energy -- is some years away.

A practical method of generating energy from fusion has been a physicists' dream for decades. Although fusion is at the heart of the hydrogen warheads the world superpowers built in the 20th century, the process of fusion itself would not produce the dangerous radiation that is created by modern nuclear power generators, which use nuclear fission to create energy from enriched uranium fuel.

Scientists Cite Advances in Controlled Fusion Research

Lawrence Livermore needs to hire that guy from Brooklyn.. He doesn't need those shiny expensive containment vessels and buildings full of lasers..

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Now THAT would be a paradigm shift!

DailyTech - Man Builds Homemade Nuclear Reactor in NY

38th in the world to create fusion. Impressive. Nuclear fusion's inevitable. Convential fission reactors are horrible technology. Or rather, great technology up to the point something goes wrong. But when a coal plant explodes it only effects the immediate area, when fission reactors cook off it's bad news for that entire latitude. Fusion reactors can't cook off.

This inevitable shift is why we're eyeing the Moon again. Moon has vast supplies of helium-3 which is what'd be used for a fusion reactor. Whoever can mine that resource will be the Saudi Arabia of fusion fuel in the 21st and 22nd centuries.

 

[flacaltenn]

Now THAT would be a paradigm shift!

DailyTech - Man Builds Homemade Nuclear Reactor in NY

38th in the world to create fusion. Impressive. Nuclear fusion's inevitable. Convential fission reactors are horrible technology. Or rather, great technology up to the point something goes wrong. But when a coal plant explodes it only effects the immediate area, when fission reactors cook off it's bad news for that entire latitude. Fusion reactors can't cook off.

This inevitable shift is why we're eyeing the Moon again. Moon has vast supplies of helium-3 which is what'd be used for a fusion reactor. Whoever can mine that resource will be the Saudi Arabia of fusion fuel in the 21st and 22nd centuries.

New fission reactors CAN "cook off" and are designed for shut themselves down. You're talking about rotary dial telephone technology..

 

[whitehall]

Theoretically it beats the hell out of the solar people who are at a dead end with a football size grid of solar panels to charge batteries that may or may not keep your lights on depending on the weather.

 

[Old Rocks]

Solar is real, and working as we post. Fusion is still theoretical.

 

[whitehall]

Solar is real, and working as we post. Fusion is still theoretical.

The future of solar energy is at best theoretical.

 

[waltky]

Uncle Ferd writin' a letter to Santa fer a nuclear energy kit fer Christmas...

Tiny power plants hold promise for nuclear energy
April 17, 2014 — Small underground nuclear power plants that could be cheaper to build than their behemoth counterparts may herald the future for an energy industry under intense scrutiny since the Fukushima disaster, the incoming head of the Nuclear Energy Agency told The Associated Press.

Size is relative - the modular plants could be about as big as a couple of semi-trailers - easily fitting on the dimensions of coal plants they're ultimately intended to replace in the U.S. They would have factory-built parts that are slotted together like Lego blocks and hauled by train or truck - making assembly possible anywhere. William Magwood, the incoming director of the Paris-based forum for nuclear energy countries, said the U.S. expects the first licensing applications to build one of the small, modular nuclear reactors in the second half of 2014, a key test to learn whether they can exist beyond the theoretical.

The Energy Department has sunk $450 million into a multi-year effort to persuade companies that the technology can be developed profitably, but companies have been drifting away from the project, citing funding and regulatory questions. It would be at least another six years before one could be built, Magwood said. "Anything with nuclear takes a while, and that's appropriate when you're talking about a technology that has to be built correctly," Magwood said in an interview ahead of his formal introduction this week to his new post. "We haven't built one, so we don't know whether they're going to be financially successful."

Microsoft founder Bill Gates has offered enthusiastic support - and investment funds - for expanding nuclear technology he believes can provide affordable electricity to the world's poor and help combat climate change. But one of the most promising developers in the Energy Department effort, Babcock & Wilcox Co. owner of mPower, this week announced plans to scale back spending, citing the need for "significant additional investors." The other company in the running is NuScale. And safety fears could cause even communities hungry for new sources of power to hesitate, just three years after the meltdown at Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi plant. In the United States, the untested technology is competing with a shale gas boom that upended the market.

A full-size reactor costs $6 billion to $8 billion and takes years to build - and decades to recoup the costs. It can produce enough to power more than 700,000 American homes, more than 10 times the output of its smaller counterpart. "A small reactor ... can be built for a fraction of that cost," Magwood said, describing the proposed costs as about one-tenth of a smaller reactor. Companies pitching the projects say they could be built near population centers, but Magwood said that would need serious vetting. They have, he later cautioned, "a possibility that's not yet proven."

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[whitehall]

He bought the stuff on Ebay?

 

[elektra]

Solar is real, and working as we post. Fusion is still theoretical.

Solar is insignificant, wasteful, and results in the importation of electricity produced in coal power plants in wyoming.

Commercial Fission power is proven, our current Nuclear Power Plants were designed without the use of computers, and here in the USA they have a 100% safe shutdown record.

 

[Old Rocks]

Solar is real, and working as we post. Fusion is still theoretical.

Solar is insignificant, wasteful, and results in the importation of electricity produced in coal power plants in wyoming.

Commercial Fission power is proven, our current Nuclear Power Plants were designed without the use of computers, and here in the USA they have a 100% safe shutdown record.

Three Mile Island

 

[martybegan]

Solar is real, and working as we post. Fusion is still theoretical.

Except where its dark, or cloudy.

 

[martybegan]

Solar is real, and working as we post. Fusion is still theoretical.

Solar is insignificant, wasteful, and results in the importation of electricity produced in coal power plants in wyoming.

Commercial Fission power is proven, our current Nuclear Power Plants were designed without the use of computers, and here in the USA they have a 100% safe shutdown record.

Three Mile Island

Three Mile Island was shut down, but the core was destroyed. There was no release of core material, only some radioactive gas, and this was of isotopes with a low half life.

Chernobyl was a case of a core excursion, and no shut down.

 

[KokomoJojo]

Now THAT would be a paradigm shift!

DailyTech - Man Builds Homemade Nuclear Reactor in NY

it all started here

New Energy Times - The Fleischmann-Pons Cold Fusion Method

 

[elektra]

Solar is real, and working as we post. Fusion is still theoretical.

Solar is insignificant, wasteful, and results in the importation of electricity produced in coal power plants in wyoming.

Commercial Fission power is proven, our current Nuclear Power Plants were designed without the use of computers, and here in the USA they have a 100% safe shutdown record.

Three Mile Island

Nobody died or got sick, completely contained, still in operation today. I said, SAFE shutdown record.

go to google, if you ask nice I could tell you how to do the search to find a result

 

[elektra]

Detroit proceeded Three Mile Island, and before that there was...................................

 

[westwall]

Solar is real, and working as we post. Fusion is still theoretical.

Solar is insignificant, wasteful, and results in the importation of electricity produced in coal power plants in wyoming.

Commercial Fission power is proven, our current Nuclear Power Plants were designed without the use of computers, and here in the USA they have a 100% safe shutdown record.

Three Mile Island

No one died.