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Monday, September 05, 2005

Europeans building Doctor Octopus fusion machine

Physicsweb.org has the scoop on some scientists re-enacting the plot of a Hollywood blockbuster...
Europe plans laser-fusion facility

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...

Fusion? Lasers? Tritium?!? I think somebody's been watching Spider-Man 2 way, WAY too many times...

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