{"id":113568,"date":"2020-09-29T13:23:06","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T20:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/mit-researchers-say-their-fusion-reactor-is-very-likely-to-work"},"modified":"2020-09-29T13:23:06","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T20:23:06","slug":"mit-researchers-say-their-fusion-reactor-is-very-likely-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/mit-researchers-say-their-fusion-reactor-is-very-likely-to-work","title":{"rendered":"MIT Researchers Say Their Fusion Reactor Is \u201cVery Likely to Work\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mit-researchers-say-their-fusion-reactor-is-very-likely-to-work2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers at MIT and other institutions say their \u201cSPARC\u201d compact fusion reactor <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-09-validating-physics-mit-designed-fusion.html\">should actually work<\/a> \u2014 at least in theory, as they argue in a series of recently released research papers.<\/p>\n<p>In a total of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/journal-of-plasma-physics\/collections\/status-of-the-sparc-physics-basis\">seven papers<\/a> penned by 47 researchers from 12 institutions, the team argues that no unexpected impediments or surprises have shown up during the planning stages.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, the research \u201cconfirms that the design we\u2019re working on is very likely to work,\u201d Martin Greenwald, deputy director of MIT\u2019s Plasma Science and Fusion Center and project lead, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/09\/29\/climate\/nuclear-fusion-reactor.html\">told <em>The New York Times<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers at MIT and other institutions say their \u201cSPARC\u201d compact fusion reactor should actually work \u2014 at least in theory, as they argue in a series of recently released research papers. In a total of seven papers penned by 47 researchers from 12 institutions, the team argues that no unexpected impediments or [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}