{"id":157360,"date":"2023-02-08T21:56:07","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T03:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/world-first-super-magnet-sparks-nuclear-fusion-breakthrough"},"modified":"2023-02-08T21:56:07","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T03:56:07","slug":"world-first-super-magnet-sparks-nuclear-fusion-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/world-first-super-magnet-sparks-nuclear-fusion-breakthrough","title":{"rendered":"World-first \u2018super\u2019 magnet sparks nuclear fusion breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/world-first-super-magnet-sparks-nuclear-fusion-breakthrough2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A UK firm has announced a world-first set of \u201csuper\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/magnets\">magnets<\/a> that can be used for testing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/nuclear-fusion\">nuclear fusion<\/a> power plants.<\/p>\n<p>Tokamak Energy said the Demo4 magnet has a magnetic field strength that is nearly a million times stronger than the Earth\u2019s magnetic field, making it capable of confining and controlling the extremely hot plasma created during the fusion process.<\/p>\n<p>Nuclear fusion has been hailed as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/tech\/nuclear-fusion-energy-clean-sun-b2162498.html\">\u201choly grail\u201d of clean energy<\/a>, with scientists working on the technology since the 1950s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A UK firm has announced a world-first set of \u201csuper\u201d magnets that can be used for testing nuclear fusion power plants. Tokamak Energy said the Demo4 magnet has a magnetic field strength that is nearly a million times stronger than the Earth\u2019s magnetic field, making it capable of confining and controlling the extremely hot plasma [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":687,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157360","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\/687"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}