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Breakthrough shrinks fusion power plant and expands practicality
Commercial fusion power plants may be cheaper and easier to build thanks to a breakthrough by TAE Technologies that allows reactors to generate their own containment fields without the need for massive magnetic coils and other systems.
Commercial fusion power plants may be cheaper and easier to build thanks to a breakthrough by TAE Technologies that allows reactors to generate their own containment fields without the need for massive magnetic coils and other systems. Part of the problem has been that the tokamak reactor, the front-runner design for a fusion power plant, has become a bit like that home extension that got out of hand and sucked up a lot more time and money than originally budgeted for until you wish you'd never started it in the first place. First conceived of by Igor Tamm and Andrei Sakharov in the 1950s, tokamaks use a toroidal magnetic field to contain the hydrogen plasma to help keep it at the sun-like pressure and temperature needed to ignite fusion.
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