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Fusion powers the sun and the stars where gravity compresses hydrogen gas to the temperatures required for fusion.

Nuclear power plants are sci hub website link. Delage says nuclear. General fusion inc a bc. Nuclear power plants currently operate in 30 countries.

Burnabys general fusion among many lobbying for federal investments in nuclear fusion. Now there are more than two dozen. Russian nuclear power program 2018.

The us nuclear industry as described by michael shellenberger and others in testimony to the us government and in a january 15 2020 letter to us president donald j. Company backed by jeff bezos has raised us65 million to build a prototype plant in its quest to prove that nuclear fusion energy can be a commercially viable carbon. Fusion power has the potential to provide sufficient energy to satisfy mounting demand and to do so sustainably with a relatively small impact on the environment.

Most are in europe north america east asia and south asiathe united states is the largest producer of nuclear power while france has the largest share of electricity generated by nuclear power. Nuclear fusion has many potential attractions. Delage notes that 15 years ago only two or three companies were working on nuclear fusion power.

The fundamental challenge is to achieve a rate of heat emitted by a fusion plasma that exceeds the rate of energy injected into the plasma. Us nuclear program january 2019. Nuclear fusion power updated july 2020 fusion power offers the prospect of an almost inexhaustible source of energy for future generations but it also presents so far insurmountable engineering challenges.

In most of the applications anticipated for fusion the energy created in a reaction would heat water. General fusion inc based in burnaby bc near vancouver. The challenge for fusion energy is how to create those conditions on earth in a controlled way that can be used to provide power.

Mike delage chief technology officer at general fusion a privately held company based in burnaby bc and a global star in private sector fusion thinks commercial fusion could be as little as a decade away. World wide nuclear power summary november 2018 by prof. Says the goal is to develop a prototype fusion power plant by 2030 that.

Mike delage chief technology officer at general fusion a privately held company based in burnaby bc and a global star in private sector fusion thinks commercial fusion could be as little as a decade away.