{"id":113684,"date":"2020-10-01T17:23:38","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T00:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/tests-confirm-that-germanys-massive-nuclear-fusion-machine-really-works"},"modified":"2020-10-01T17:23:38","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T00:23:38","slug":"tests-confirm-that-germanys-massive-nuclear-fusion-machine-really-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/tests-confirm-that-germanys-massive-nuclear-fusion-machine-really-works","title":{"rendered":"Tests Confirm That Germany\u2019s Massive Nuclear Fusion Machine Really Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IP7Vuqz-MAE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>At the end of 2015, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/german-has-just-successfully-fired-up-a-revolutionary-nuclear-fusion-machine\">Germany switched on<\/a> a new type of massive nuclear fusion reactor for the first time, and it was successfully able to contain a scorching hot blob of helium plasma.<\/p>\n<p>But since then, there\u2019s been a big question \u2014 is the device working the way it\u2019s supposed to? That\u2019s pretty crucial when you\u2019re talking about a machine that could potentially maintain controlled nuclear fusion reactions one day, and thankfully, the answer is yes.<\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers from the US and Germany have now confirmed that the Wendelstein 7-X (W 7-X) stellerator is producing the super-strong, twisty, 3D magnetic fields that its design predicted, with \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2016-12\/dppl-cow120216.php\">unprecedented accuracy<\/a>\u201d. The researchers found an error rate less than one in 100,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of 2015, Germany switched on a new type of massive nuclear fusion reactor for the first time, and it was successfully able to contain a scorching hot blob of helium plasma. But since then, there\u2019s been a big question \u2014 is the device working the way it\u2019s supposed to? That\u2019s pretty crucial [\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-113684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113684","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=113684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}