A Stunning Fusion Rocket Could Cut Interplanetary Travel in Half—and We'll Try It in Just 2 Years
Fusion has long been the propulsion end-goal for interplanetary travel, and a U.K.-based company thinks on its way to ...
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This Futuristic Fusion Rocket Could Slash Interplanetary Travel Time—And It’s Almost Ready
A secretive UK-based startup has just pulled back the curtain on a futuristic space propulsion project that sounds like ...
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Type One Energy publishes physics design basis for pilot fusion plant
Type One Energy has published the world’s first detailed and self-consistent physics basis for a practical fusion pilot power ...
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Rockets with nuclear fusion engines will appear in a few years — at least, this is being worked on
which generates heat and releases additional fuel for further reactions The developers of the Duel Direct Fusion Drive engines plan to use deuterium and helium-3 as fuel a light stable isotope of ...
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Pulsar unveils nuclear fusion rocket concept
The Sunbird concept is for the fusion-powered ‘tugs’ to be permanently based in space, able to dock with spacecraft and ...
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Helion Energy
Founded in 2013 and supported by early contract from ARPA-E, Helion is working on a pulsed fusion electricity generator using deuterium and helium-3 as a fuel. The latter is extremely rare and ...
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Basic fusion physics
The main fuels used in nuclear fusion devises are deuterium and ... an alpha particle (or Helium-4 nucleus) and a neutron, and releases 17.6 megaelectron volt (MeV) of energy in the form of kinetic ...
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Fueling Up For Fusion: MAST’s Super-X, JET’s Deuterium-Tritium Experiments For ITER, And More
JET (Joint European Torus) will be testing the deuterium ... the fusion reaction. One of the purposes of these divertors is to purify the plasma by removing unwanted elements, such as the helium ...