{"id":16082,"date":"2015-08-12T17:46:28","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T00:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/mit-designs-small-modular-efficient-fusion-power-plant"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:25:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:25:25","slug":"mit-designs-small-modular-efficient-fusion-power-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/mit-designs-small-modular-efficient-fusion-power-plant","title":{"rendered":"MIT designs small, modular, efficient fusion power plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mit-designs-small-modular-efficient-fusion-power-plant.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>A cutaway view of the proposed ARC reactor (credit: MIT ARC team)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">MIT<\/a> plans to create a new compact version of a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tokamak_Fusion_Test_Reactor\" target=\"_blank\">tokamak fusion reactor<\/a> with the goal of producing practical fusion power, which could offer a nearly inexhaustible energy resource in as little as a decade.<\/p>\n<p>Fusion, the nuclear reaction that powers the sun, involves fusing pairs of hydrogen atoms together to form helium, accompanied by enormous releases of energy.<\/p>\n<p>The new fusion reactor, called ARC, would take advantage of new, commercially available superconductors \u2014 rare-earth barium copper oxide (REBCO) superconducting tapes (the dark brown areas in the illustration above) \u2014 to produce stronger magnetic field coils, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/nse\/people\/faculty\/whyte.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dennis Whyte<\/a>, a professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering and director of MIT\u2019s Plasma Science and Fusion Center.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/mit-designs-small-modular-efficient-fusion-power-plant\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cutaway view of the proposed ARC reactor (credit: MIT ARC team) MIT plans to create a new compact version of a tokamak fusion reactor with the goal of producing practical fusion power, which could offer a nearly inexhaustible energy resource in as little as a decade. Fusion, the nuclear reaction that powers the sun, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,38,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-engineering","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16082","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16082"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69732,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16082\/revisions\/69732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}