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Instructions for making the Sun: How the race for nuclear fusion has accelerated | Driven by the latest scientific advances and a huge wave of investment in private projects, the dream of generating energy by replicating the processes that keep the stars alight is no longer science fiction
Driven by the latest scientific advances and a huge wave of investment in private projects, the dream of generating energy by replicating the processes that keep the stars alight is no longer science fiction
It’s been like the Wright brothers’ experience [who in 1903 made the first controlled powered flight],” says Bruno Van Wonterghem, head of operations at the National Ignition Facility (NIF), the center of the large public complex in Livermore, California that is carrying out the fusion project. In the lobby of the same building one morning last June, amid reproductions of laser optics, display cases showing key pieces of work such as fuel capsules, and a few exhibits celebrating the lab’s records, Van Wonterghem continued his analogy. Backed by 35 countries — including the EU, the U.S., Japan, South Korea, China and Russia — the ITER(Latin for “the way”) is an experimental reactor of colossal dimensions, theoretically big enough to prove that it is possible to make viable magnetic confinement power plants.
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