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Audio long-read: The chase for fusion energy

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The Future of Plasma Fusion

First fusion machine that makes net energy, producing more energy than goes into it. General fusions design for its column reactor uses a centrifuge to spin a chamber filled with molten lead and lithium. Tritium will be produced when neutrons escaping the reactor hit a lithium blanket lining the tocomac. Inertial confinement involves using an electromagnetic projectile gun to fire a small piece of material into a target containing hydrogen isotopes. Lazer fusion is also being studied at the us. National ignition facility in California.

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