{"id":159376,"date":"2023-03-02T13:22:44","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T19:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/us-japan-team-hails-h2-boron-plasma-fusion-breakthrough"},"modified":"2023-03-02T13:22:44","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T19:22:44","slug":"us-japan-team-hails-h2-boron-plasma-fusion-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/us-japan-team-hails-h2-boron-plasma-fusion-breakthrough","title":{"rendered":"US-Japan team hails H2-boron plasma fusion breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/us-japan-team-hails-h2-boron-plasma-fusion-breakthrough.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An innovative nuclear fusion technology that uses no radioactive materials and is calculated capable of \u201cpowering the planet for more than 100,000 years\u201d, has been successfully piloted by a US-Japanese team of researchers.<\/p>\n<p>California-based TAE Technologies, working with Japan\u2019s National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS), have completed first tests of a hydrogen-boron fuel cycle in magnetically-confined plasma, which could generate cleaner, lower cost energy that that produced by the more common deuterium-tritium (D-T) fusion process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis experiment offers us a wealth of data to work with and shows that hydrogen-boron has a place in utility-scale fusion power. We know we can solve the physics challenge at hand and deliver a transformational new form of carbon-free energy to the world that relies on this non-radioactive, abundant fuel,\u201d said Michl Binderbauer, CEO of TAE Technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An innovative nuclear fusion technology that uses no radioactive materials and is calculated capable of \u201cpowering the planet for more than 100,000 years\u201d, has been successfully piloted by a US-Japanese team of researchers. California-based TAE Technologies, working with Japan\u2019s National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS), have completed first tests of a hydrogen-boron fuel cycle in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159376","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=159376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}