{"id":164877,"date":"2023-05-31T15:26:02","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T20:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/advancing-fusion-energy-researchers-achieve-record-breaking-temperatures-in-a-tokamak"},"modified":"2023-05-31T15:26:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T20:26:02","slug":"advancing-fusion-energy-researchers-achieve-record-breaking-temperatures-in-a-tokamak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/advancing-fusion-energy-researchers-achieve-record-breaking-temperatures-in-a-tokamak","title":{"rendered":"Advancing fusion energy: Researchers achieve record-breaking temperatures in a tokamak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/advancing-fusion-energy-researchers-achieve-record-breaking-temperatures-in-a-tokamak2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They managed to achieve temperatures of more than 100 million degrees Celsius. That is hotter than the sun\u2019s core temperature!<\/p>\n<p>Nuclear fusion reactions generate large amounts of energy. An example of nuclear fusion is the reactions happening in the sun\u2019s core. Harnessing fusion energy has long been a goal of scientists and researchers as it produces no greenhouse gas emissions or long-lived radioactive waste.<\/p>\n<p>However, there are several bottlenecks to producing fusion energy, such as the requirement of high temperatures and pressures, plasma instability, cost, scalability, and finding energy balance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They managed to achieve temperatures of more than 100 million degrees Celsius. That is hotter than the sun\u2019s core temperature! Nuclear fusion reactions generate large amounts of energy. An example of nuclear fusion is the reactions happening in the sun\u2019s core. Harnessing fusion energy has long been a goal of scientists and researchers as it [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164877","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}