{"id":221283,"date":"2025-09-02T03:22:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T08:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/bon-voyage-general-atomics-set-to-ship-final-piece-of-giant-battery-to-nuclear-fusion-project-in-france"},"modified":"2025-09-02T03:22:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T08:22:05","slug":"bon-voyage-general-atomics-set-to-ship-final-piece-of-giant-battery-to-nuclear-fusion-project-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/bon-voyage-general-atomics-set-to-ship-final-piece-of-giant-battery-to-nuclear-fusion-project-in-france","title":{"rendered":"Bon voyage: General Atomics set to ship final piece of giant battery to nuclear fusion project in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bon-voyage-general-atomics-set-to-ship-final-piece-of-giant-battery-to-nuclear-fusion-project-in-france.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The final section of what scientists and engineers say will be the largest and most powerful pulsed, superconducting magnet in the world has been completed at the Poway campus of San Diego-based General Atomics.<\/p>\n<p>The 270,000-pound module is poised for shipment to France, where it will join six other identical sections at the ITER project\u2014an ambitious international effort aimed at determining whether the so-far-untapped potential of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/nuclear+fusion\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">nuclear fusion<\/a> as an energy source can be practical or not.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a momentous achievement,\u201d General Atomics Chief Executive Officer Neal Blue said Thursday during a news conference at the company\u2019s Magnet Technologies Center in Poway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final section of what scientists and engineers say will be the largest and most powerful pulsed, superconducting magnet in the world has been completed at the Poway campus of San Diego-based General Atomics. The 270,000-pound module is poised for shipment to France, where it will join six other identical sections at the ITER project\u2014an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221283","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}