{"id":95177,"date":"2019-08-23T08:22:41","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T15:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/darpas-handheld-nuclear-fusion-reactor"},"modified":"2019-08-23T08:22:41","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T15:22:41","slug":"darpas-handheld-nuclear-fusion-reactor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/darpas-handheld-nuclear-fusion-reactor","title":{"rendered":"DARPA\u2019s Handheld Nuclear Fusion Reactor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/darpas-handheld-nuclear-fusion-reactor4.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/darpas-handheld-nuclear-fusion-reactor2.jpg\" alt=\"fusionsun\" title=\"fusionsun\"\/>Last year, Pentagon mad science arm DARPA was working on one of its wildest projects yet: a microchip-sized nuclear reactor. The program is now officially done, the agency says. But these sorts of far-out projects have a habit of being reemerging under new managers and new names.<\/p>\n<p>The project, known as the \u201cChip-Scale High Energy Atomic Beams\u201d program, is an effort aimed at working on the core technologies behind a tiny particle accelerator, capable of firing subatomic particles at incredible speeds. It\u2019s part of a larger DARPA plan to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/dangerroom\/2009\/03\/battlechips-dar\/\">reduce all sorts of devices to microchip-scale<\/a> \u2013 including cryogenic coolers, video cameras and multi-purpose sensors. All of the projects are ambitious (this is DARPA, after all). But this had to be the most ambitious of the lot. Here\u2019s how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dtic.mil\/descriptivesum\/Y2009\/DARPA\/0603739E.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">DARPA\u2019s plans for fiscal year 2009 <\/a>described it:<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve read your last complimentary article this month. To read the full article, <a to=\"https:\/\/subscribe.wired.com\/subscribe\/splits\/wired\/WIR_Edit_Hardcoded?source=finalbarrier_text_failsafe\" href=\"https:\/\/subscribe.wired.com\/subscribe\/splits\/wired\/WIR_Edit_Hardcoded?source=finalbarrier_text_failsafe\">SUBSCRIBE NOW<\/a>. If you\u2019re already a subscriber, please <a to=\"\/account\/sign-in\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/account\/sign-in\/\">sign in<\/a> and and verify your subscription.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Pentagon mad science arm DARPA was working on one of its wildest projects yet: a microchip-sized nuclear reactor. The program is now officially done, the agency says. But these sorts of far-out projects have a habit of being reemerging under new managers and new names. The project, known as the \u201cChip-Scale High Energy [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,9,873,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-military","category-nuclear-energy","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95177","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}