As per reports, US-Japan team successfully completes innovative H2-boron plasma nuclear fusion technology test. According to both organizations, it has pioneered the search for the cleanest and most cost-effective approach to supplying energy with hydrogen-boron fuel which can power the earth for the upcoming 100,000 years.
The fusing of light nuclides including hydrogen and helium to generate heavier nuclides is known as nuclear fusion. Nuclear fusion power generation is a more environmentally friendly and efficient substitute for conventional power generation. This is the first time hydrogen-boron fusion has been performed in magnetically confined fusion plasma by TAE Technologies of California and Japan’s National Institute for Fusion Science.
TAE Technologies tweeted, “Our recent scientific experiment with NIFS details the first-ever hydrogen-boron fusion experiments in a magnetically confined fusion plasma—an important step toward our goal of commercial, clean fusion energy.â€
Scientists from both organizations have discussed the outcome of a hydrogen-boron nuclear fusion reaction in an experiment conducted at NIFS’ Large Helical Device (LHD). They also mentioned the experimental work done to create the conditions required for hydrogen-boron fusion in the LHD plasma, as well as TAE’s invention of a detector to monitor the hydrogen-boron reaction products, known as alpha particles.
Hundreds of teams throughout the world are trying to commercialize nuclear fusion power generation, with hydrogen and tritium being the main componential options. Tritium, on the other hand, is a radioactive isotope that is quite uncommon and expensive. As an alternative, TAE Technologies is focusing on the development of hydrogen-boron fusion power generation, which uses boron, which is abundant on Earth and a lot safer.
Creating net energy-producing fusion reactors is one thing; delivering it as a stable, grid-ready source of power is another. TAE foresaw the genuine demands of commercial, day-to-day fusion energy consumption by pursuing hydrogen boron as a fuel cycle. The concept employs a configurable advanced accelerator beam-driven field-reversed arrangement that can handle all available fusion fuel cycles.
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TAE stated that it has developed five “national laboratory-scale” devices that have created and contained fusion plasma over 140,000 times and that it is currently developing two additional machines. More than 30 research organizations across the world are rushing to commercialize fusion, which is considered the “ideal power” source as the world turns away from CO2-emitting fossil fuels that are largely contributing to global warming.
As US-Japan team successfully completes innovative H2-boron plasma nuclear fusion technology test, TAE expects to license its technology and eventually link the first hydrogen-boron fusion power plant to the grid system by the 2030s.
Source: TAE Technologies
