NUCLEAR FUSION GOAL
U.S research institute eyeing a Nuclear Fusion Power Breakthrough
Researchers believe this is the most significant advance in inertial fusion since its beginning in 1972
When it comes to harnessing energy from nuclear fusion, it is considered by many in the scientific community as the holy grail of sustainable energy. And with sustainability initiatives becoming hotly debated topics among global policymakers, nuclear fusion breakthroughs like this one will be seen with extreme interest. Nature provides us with the biggest example of nuclear fusion energy in the form of the Sun, yet it’s much more difficult to produce for us due to its extremely volatile nature.
There is currently more than one global project in the experimental stage — working towards achieving the “impossible” feat of producing nuclear fusion energy, and more importantly, to control & sustain it. China has been working on producing its own “Artificial Sun” via a nuclear fusion device — called the HL-2M Tokamak since 2006. Late last year, Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR), also known as the Korean artificial sun created a new world record in a nuclear fusion reaction.
