{"id":21163,"date":"2016-01-24T15:47:09","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T23:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/nuclear-fusions-heat-loss-problem-may-have-been-solved"},"modified":"2017-04-24T22:49:35","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T05:49:35","slug":"nuclear-fusions-heat-loss-problem-may-have-been-solved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/nuclear-fusions-heat-loss-problem-may-have-been-solved","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear Fusion\u2019s \u201cHeat Loss\u201d Problem May Have Been Solved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" src=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RLI6QW2x4Lg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Scientists claim to have made yet another <a href=\"http:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2016\/heat-loss-fusion-reactors-0121\">step towards<\/a> the ultimate goal of achieving nuclear fusion, by partially solving an outstanding problem in the field: heat loss.<\/p>\n<p>The research was led by scientists at MIT\u2019s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, in collaboration with the University of California at San Diego, General Atomics, and the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>To make <a href=\"http:\/\/hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu\/hbase\/nucene\/fusion.html\">nuclear fusion<\/a> work, atoms of deuterium need to be \u201cstuck together\u201d to form helium in a super-heated plasma at around 100 million degrees Celsius. Keeping the temperature this high is difficult, though, because turbulence stirs up the plasma, causing heat to dissipate \u2013 hence, heat loss.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iflscience.com\/physics\/nuclear-fusions-heat-loss-problem-may-have-been-solved\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists claim to have made yet another step towards the ultimate goal of achieving nuclear fusion, by partially solving an outstanding problem in the field: heat loss. The research was led by scientists at MIT\u2019s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, in collaboration with the University of California at San Diego, General Atomics, and the Princeton [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21163","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\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44350,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21163\/revisions\/44350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}