Fusion News, September 6, 2023
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- Alexander Behzadi, an environmental scientist and recent graduate from the St. Mary University of Maryland, gives today's global fusion news update. Links to all the stories mentioned are included below.
1. Nuclear fusion: Chinese power firm hails step forward in quest to build ‘artificial sun’ www.scmp.com/news/china/scien...
2. First Light Fusion - First Light Fusion and Sandia National Laboratories announce new collaboration to test amplifier technology on the Z Machine
www.ipgroupplc.com/news-and-e...
3. Testing of ITER wall panel under way
www.world-nuclear-news.org/Ar...
4. The Role of Peel-Resistant Protective Layers in Fusion Reactors
www.azom.com/news.aspx?newsID....
Bonuses:
• An Exotic Approach to ...
techcrunch.com/2023/08/24/fus...
So glad this video was recommended to me, this stuff is incredible. What a time to be alive and watch it all.
Thanks for your work! This podcast helps me stay tuned into the development of the industry. So excited to see what is around the corner.
Great FIA news update! Thanks for this!
Interested in the additional news story about Helion Energy. Headed off to check out that link now.
This fellow looks like the star scientist in that fusion energy movie 'Chain Reaction'. Another host of fusion news looks like Peter Parker. The scientist leading the Helion fusion project looks like Doc Oc.
First light fusion is doing great work, but they and all DT approaches need to be also working on tritium breeding under fusion conditions. I have come across no reports of anyone doing this, or looking into lithium 6 enrichment. Some say this enrichment will be essential.
Tritium breeding is talked about alot but i think the complexities of this engineering are tough. I think ITER will have this though if i recall my training
Both helion & first-light , for example, plan lithium -> tritium AFAIR.
Don't worry about lithium breeding. I'm working on that myself, and I can tell you that it is by no means an immature field. Very interesting engineering solutions for liquid PbLi blankets.
I'm 69 yrs old, and I've been folowing fusion for a LONG time and back then they said" Fusion in 20 yrs" , now it's 20 yrs again? I believe in the technology but, A..I. will transform the way we go about doing things, so I say 5 yrs .
6:54 I thought the use of beryllium had already been discarded for ITER, and they had decided they would use tungsten instead.
Methods of inhibiting liquid metal corrosion will be useful but only if they are tested under high intensity neutron irradiation. At present there seems no easy way of doing this.
Alas, neutron sources are hard to come by and neutrons are deceptively difficult at measuring given what they are.
Actually we (including me) are currently using IEC fusors as a cheap method of neutron and xray generation. It is many orders of magnitude lower than inside most ToKaMaK shots, but is also very cheap and easy to replace. Makes it easy to test that stuff.
What Gangstalking Students for Fusion Centers in Maryland 😂
Helion is brilliant. Wish you all would hone in on their progress more
Helion is considered somewhat of a joke in the industry.