New nuclear fusion reactor's electromagnet could lift 10 monster trucks

Researchers make breakthrough on experimental device that will get hotter than the sun: 'It provides energy and cooling media'

The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor in France is inching closer to completion with the delivery of essential magnetic components from China for its fusion reactor.  The Correction Coil In-Cryostat Feeder is the last and most important of many massive components in the reactor's magnetic feeder system, according to Interesting Engineering. The device was developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Plasma Physics, a…

New nuclear fusion reactor's electromagnet could lift 10 monster trucks

The world’s largest and most powerful superconducting electromagnet is ready to become the pulsing “heart” inside of a massive tokamak nuclear fusion reactor. Developed over 40 years in collaboration with over 30 countries, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) facility in southern France aims to finally demonstrate nuclear fusion’s potential as a commercially viable energy source. But in order to do that, ITER requires a s…

The Beating Heart of the World’s Biggest Fusion Reactor is Finally Complete

The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) is nearly 40 years in the making, and its most complex component is now ready for assembly.

Heart of World’s Biggest Fusion Reactor is Finally Complete

The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) is nearly 40 years in the making, and its most complex component is now ready for assembly.

The world’s most powerful magnet will create near-limitless energy

An international team is building a colossal magnet, a core component in the development of nuclear fusion energy.A 350-tonne magnet coil - just one component of the ITER magnet - is lowered into the Tokamak pitScientists and engineers from across the world are building the world’s largest magnet as part of a long-term project to prove the viability of nuclear fusion, which could provide huge quantities of clean energy.Nuclear fusion is the proc…

ITER is still a silent colossus of components - but the system, which is supposed to bring it to millions of degrees later, has now been impressively balanced. Thus, the long-suffering large project has a significant technical success. (Continue reading)