BBCNEWS BBC News February 10, 2022 03:02:00
It is, says the team here, a landmark for this technology. these results are really significant. what we've managed to demonstrate insidejet is that we can create a mini—sun, the right kind of mini—sun, hold it there for a sustained period and get really good performance levels, which is a major step forward in terms of our quest to get fusion power plants. most nuclear reactors use fission. that's when big, unstable items like uranium are split in two. the reaction releases lots of energy and radiation. fusion is different. it involves forcing two atoms of hydrogen together, fusing them, ...