French researchers managed to keep plasma stable for 22 minutes, a 25% improvement over the previous record. Scientists are working to bump that up to several hours to make nuclear fusion power generators viable.
The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) announced a major milestone in the advancements in plasma duration inside a nuclear reactor, by maintaining plasma for 1,337 seconds. This new record represents a 25% improvement over the previous record set by East in China just weeks earlier.
This equals 22 minutes of plasma maintained inside the fusion reactor before it dissipated or became unstable. This technology would use less fuel than a fission nuclear reactor, and produce less radioactive waste, making it key to future energy generation. READ MORE...
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