{"id":159521,"date":"2023-03-04T01:25:22","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T07:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/first-measurements-of-hydrogen-boron-fusion-in-a-magnetically-confined-fusion-plasma"},"modified":"2023-03-04T01:25:22","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T07:25:22","slug":"first-measurements-of-hydrogen-boron-fusion-in-a-magnetically-confined-fusion-plasma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/first-measurements-of-hydrogen-boron-fusion-in-a-magnetically-confined-fusion-plasma","title":{"rendered":"First measurements of hydrogen-boron fusion in a magnetically confined fusion plasma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-measurements-of-hydrogen-boron-fusion-in-a-magnetically-confined-fusion-plasma2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As fusion developers around the world race to commercialize fusion energy, TAE Technologies has pioneered the pursuit of the cleanest and most economical path to providing electricity with hydrogen-boron (also known as p-B<sup>11<\/sup> or p<sup>11 <\/sup>B), an abundant, environmentally sound fuel. Today the company is announcing, in collaboration with Japan\u2019s National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS), a noteworthy research advancement: the first-ever hydrogen-boron fusion experiments in a magnetically confined fusion plasma.<\/p>\n<p>In a paper published by <i>Nature Communications<\/i>, scientists explain the outcome of the nuclear <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/fusion\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">fusion<\/a> reaction of hydrogen-boron in an experiment in NIFS\u2019 Large Helical Device (LHD). This paper describes the experimental work of producing the conditions necessary for hydrogen-boron fusion in the LHD plasma and TAE\u2019s development of a detector to make measurements of the hydrogen-boron reaction products: helium nuclei, known as alpha particles.<\/p>\n<p>The finding reflects years of collaborative international scientific fusion research, and represents a milestone in TAE\u2019s mission to develop commercial fusion power with hydrogen-boron, the cleanest, most cost-competitive, and most sustainable <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/fuel\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">fuel<\/a> cycle for fusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As fusion developers around the world race to commercialize fusion energy, TAE Technologies has pioneered the pursuit of the cleanest and most economical path to providing electricity with hydrogen-boron (also known as p-B11 or p11 B), an abundant, environmentally sound fuel. Today the company is announcing, in collaboration with Japan\u2019s National Institute for Fusion Science [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,48,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-particle-physics","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159521","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=159521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}