{"id":76983,"date":"2018-03-17T13:03:11","date_gmt":"2018-03-17T20:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/scientists-zap-tiny-wires-with-lasers-to-create-mini-nuclear-fusion"},"modified":"2018-03-17T13:03:11","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T20:03:11","slug":"scientists-zap-tiny-wires-with-lasers-to-create-mini-nuclear-fusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/scientists-zap-tiny-wires-with-lasers-to-create-mini-nuclear-fusion","title":{"rendered":"Scientists zap tiny wires with lasers to create mini-nuclear fusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-zap-tiny-wires-with-lasers-to-create-mini-nuclear-fusion.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A step towards limitless energy? reactions at record efficiency\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Researchers from Colorado State University\u2019s (CSU) Advanced Beam Laboratory used a compact but powerful laser they built from scratch to heat tiny, invisible wires, known as nanowires.<\/p>\n<p>These contained a source of deuterium, one of two stable isotopes of hydrogen and a common source of fuel for nuclear fusion reactions.<\/p>\n<p>The experiment resulted in a chain reaction of fusion events, which created a hot and dense plasma containing helium and highly energetic neutrons.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-5510325\/Scientists-zap-tiny-wires-lasers-create-mini-nuclear-fusion.html\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-5510325\/Scien...usion.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A step towards limitless energy? reactions at record efficiency\u2026 Researchers from Colorado State University\u2019s (CSU) Advanced Beam Laboratory used a compact but powerful laser they built from scratch to heat tiny, invisible wires, known as nanowires. These contained a source of deuterium, one of two stable isotopes of hydrogen and a common source of fuel [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76983","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=76983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}