{"id":213019,"date":"2025-05-01T21:06:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T02:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/fusion-breakthrough-magnet-powerful-enough-to-levitate-an-aircraft-carrier-marks-final-step-before-iter-reactor-assembly"},"modified":"2025-05-01T21:06:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T02:06:06","slug":"fusion-breakthrough-magnet-powerful-enough-to-levitate-an-aircraft-carrier-marks-final-step-before-iter-reactor-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/fusion-breakthrough-magnet-powerful-enough-to-levitate-an-aircraft-carrier-marks-final-step-before-iter-reactor-assembly","title":{"rendered":"Fusion Breakthrough: Magnet Powerful Enough to Levitate an Aircraft Carrier Marks Final Step Before ITER Reactor Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fusion-breakthrough-magnet-powerful-enough-to-levitate-an-aircraft-carrier-marks-final-step-before-iter-reactor-assembly.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a critical fusion breakthrough, scientists from the international <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iter.org\/\">ITER<\/a> nuclear fusion energy project have announced the completion of the sixth and final component of the reactor\u2019s central solenoid, a magnet powerful enough to levitate an aircraft carrier.<\/p>\n<p>Described as a \u201clandmark achievement\u201d by the 30-country <a href=\"https:\/\/thedebrief.org\/fusion-reactor-breakthrough-readies-stage-for-iter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ITER collaboration<\/a>, the pulsed superconducting electromagnet and other completed components will be assembled at the group\u2019s designated site in southern France.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy integrating all the systems needed for fusion at industrial scale, ITER is serving as a massive, complex research laboratory for its 30-plus member countries, providing the knowledge and data needed to optimize commercial fusion power,\u201d the group explained in a statement announcing the achievement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a critical fusion breakthrough, scientists from the international ITER nuclear fusion energy project have announced the completion of the sixth and final component of the reactor\u2019s central solenoid, a magnet powerful enough to levitate an aircraft carrier. Described as a \u201clandmark achievement\u201d by the 30-country ITER collaboration, the pulsed superconducting electromagnet and other completed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213019","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}