{"id":150333,"date":"2022-11-15T22:24:28","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T04:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/nuclear-fusion-experiment-just-made-something-very-strange-happen"},"modified":"2022-11-15T22:24:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T04:24:28","slug":"nuclear-fusion-experiment-just-made-something-very-strange-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/nuclear-fusion-experiment-just-made-something-very-strange-happen","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear fusion experiment just made something very strange happen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nuclear-fusion-experiment-just-made-something-very-strange-happen.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a recent study, charged atoms, also known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/american-military-fusion-reactor-space-avalanche-energy-orbitron-1721359\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"U.S. Military to Send Fusion Reactor Into Space Within Five Years\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"\">ions<\/a>, have been found to behave strangely during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/topic\/nuclear-fusion\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Nuclear fusion\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"\">nuclear fusion<\/a> reactions, in ways that scientists did not expect.<\/p>\n<p>According to a paper published on November 14 in the journal<em> Nature Physics<\/em>, researchers at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory discovered that when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/jet-nuclear-fusion-reactor-experiments-record-breaking-1746643\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Wave of Fusion Energy Experiments Begin With Groundbreaking Machine\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"\">deuterium and tritium<\/a> ions, which are isotopes of hydrogen with one and two neutrons, respectively\u2014are heated using lasers during laser-fusion experiments, there are more ions with higher energies than expected when a thermonuclear burn starts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe process of inertial confinement fusion (ICF) squeezes a small (1mm radius) capsule filled with a layer of frozen deuterium and tritium (isotopes of hydrogen) surrounding a volume of deuterium and tritium gas down to a radius of about 30 micrometers. In the process, these isotopes of hydrogen ionize and a plasma of electrons, deuterium and tritium nuclei [is the result],\u201d Edward Hartouni, a physicist at NIF and a co-author of the paper, told <em>Newsweek<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent study, charged atoms, also known as ions, have been found to behave strangely during nuclear fusion reactions, in ways that scientists did not expect. According to a paper published on November 14 in the journal Nature Physics, researchers at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory discovered that when [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150333","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}