{"id":123952,"date":"2021-06-18T15:24:02","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T22:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/this-is-the-first-fusion-power-plant-to-generate-net-electricity"},"modified":"2021-06-18T15:24:02","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T22:24:02","slug":"this-is-the-first-fusion-power-plant-to-generate-net-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/this-is-the-first-fusion-power-plant-to-generate-net-electricity","title":{"rendered":"This Is the First Fusion Power Plant to Generate Net Electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-is-the-first-fusion-power-plant-to-generate-net-electricity.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the secret to the self-sustaining tokamak concept.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Could the future of nuclear fusion be a much smaller, self-sustaining tokamak reactor? Researchers at the General Atomics DIII-D National Fusion Facility, the largest nuclear fusion research facility in the U.S., think so. The secret is the pressurized plasma.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists from DIII-D have designed a full \u201ccompact nuclear fusion plant\u201d concept and detailed the plans in a new paper in Nuclear Fusion. In simulations, their 8-meter-wide pressurized plasma fusion concept is powerful enough to generate 200 megawatts (MW) of net electricity after the energy cost of the fusion itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s the secret to the self-sustaining tokamak concept. Could the future of nuclear fusion be a much smaller, self-sustaining tokamak reactor? Researchers at the General Atomics DIII-D National Fusion Facility, the largest nuclear fusion research facility in the U.S., think so. The secret is the pressurized plasma. The scientists from DIII-D have designed a full [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123952","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=123952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}