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Victor Tangermann<\/a> – July 28, 2020<\/p>\n Today, engineers started construction<\/a> of the world\u2019s largest nuclear fusion project in southern France, The Guardian<\/em> reports<\/a>, with operations planned to begin in late 2025.<\/p>\n The project, called ITER, is an international collaborative effort between 35 countries with enormous ambitions: prove the feasibility of fusion energy with a gigantic magnetic device called a \u201ctokamak,\u201d as per the project\u2019s official website<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cEnabling the exclusive use of clean energy will be a miracle for our planet,\u201d ITER director-general Bernard Bigot said during today\u2019s virtual celebration<\/a>, as quoted by The Guardian<\/em>.<\/p>\n Fusion power, in theory, works by harnessing the energy released by two lighter atomic nuclei fusing to form a heavier nucleus, and turning it into electricity.<\/p>\n If proven to be economical \u2014 that is, if the machine generates more energy than has to be put in to kickstart the process \u2014 the technology could lay the groundwork for an entirely new way of generating nearly unlimited clean energy on a commercial scale. Fusion power would be far safer than conventional fission nuclear energy, since there\u2019s no risk of a meltdown or leftover nuclear waste.<\/p>\n But if the last six decades<\/a> of fusion research are anything to go by, it remains an elusive way of generating net energy. The extremely hot plasma inside the fusion reactors is notoriously difficult to predict and control.<\/p>\n https:\/\/futurism.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Victor Tangermann – July 28, 2020 Today, engineers started construction of the world\u2019s largest nuclear fusion project in southern France, The Guardian reports, with operations planned to begin in late 2025. The project, called ITER, is an international collaborative effort between 35 countries with enormous ambitions: prove the feasibility of fusion energy with a gigantic … Continue reading Scientists Start Construction of World\u2019s Largest Fusion Reactor<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[15102,15103,15105,1067,15104,15106,15101,10050],"class_list":["post-18779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-watching","tag-tokamak","tag-clean-energy","tag-electricity","tag-france","tag-fusion-energy","tag-fusion-reactor","tag-iter","tag-nuclear-fusion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-4ST","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18781,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18779\/revisions\/18781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}