{"id":119609,"date":"2021-02-15T15:23:45","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T23:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/scientists-use-lithium-to-control-heat-in-nuclear-fusion-reactors"},"modified":"2021-02-15T15:23:45","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T23:23:45","slug":"scientists-use-lithium-to-control-heat-in-nuclear-fusion-reactors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/scientists-use-lithium-to-control-heat-in-nuclear-fusion-reactors","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Use Lithium To Control Heat In Nuclear Fusion Reactors"},"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\/TzSWis3FX2M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Researchers unlocked the electronic properties of graphene by folding the material like origami paper.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Researchers at the US Department of Energy\u2019s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have created a plan using liquid lithium to control the extreme heat that could strike the exhaust system inside tokamak fusion reactors.<\/p>\n<p>A tokamak is a confinement device that uses a powerful magnetic field to confine plasma in the shape of a torus and whose work is to produce controlled thermonuclear <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/research-gets-closer-to-making-nuclear-fusion-power-a-reality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fusion power<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fusion, on the other hand, is the nuclear reaction that occurs when atoms collide and fuse together, releasing huge amounts of energy. This process is what powers the Sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers unlocked the electronic properties of graphene by folding the material like origami paper. Researchers at the US Department of Energy\u2019s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have created a plan using liquid lithium to control the extreme heat that could strike the exhaust system inside tokamak fusion reactors. A tokamak is a confinement device that uses [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119609","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=119609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}