{"id":32430,"date":"2016-12-06T09:49:01","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T17:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/tests-confirm-germanys-massive-nuclear-fusion-machine-really-works"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:14:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:14:20","slug":"tests-confirm-germanys-massive-nuclear-fusion-machine-really-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/tests-confirm-germanys-massive-nuclear-fusion-machine-really-works","title":{"rendered":"Tests confirm Germany\u2019s massive nuclear fusion machine really works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><video width=\"636\" height=\"358\" controls><source src=\"http:\/\/video.dailymail.co.uk\/video\/mol\/2015\/10\/26\/5076242146353788856\/1024x576_5076242146353788856.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><\/p>\n<p>Last year, scientists started up a new type of massive nuclear fusion reactor for the first time, known as a stellarator.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Max Planck Institute in Greifswald, Germany, injected a tiny amount of hydrogen and heated it until it became plasma, effectively mimicking conditions inside the sun.<\/p>\n<p>But since then scientists have been asking whether the ambitious device \u2014 named Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) \u2014 works as it is supposed to, producing the right magnetic fields.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-4004972\/A-step-closer-LIMITLESS-energy-Tests-confirm-Germany-s-star-jar-nuclear-fusion-reactor-really-works.html\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-4004972\/A-ste...works.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, scientists started up a new type of massive nuclear fusion reactor for the first time, known as a stellarator. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute in Greifswald, Germany, injected a tiny amount of hydrogen and heated it until it became plasma, effectively mimicking conditions inside the sun. But since then scientists have been [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32430","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\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32430"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38213,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32430\/revisions\/38213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}