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What Happened to Cold Fusion? (Pt 1 of 8) Cafe Scientifique Silicon Valley, 10/11/11. Fusion power. The Sun is a natural fusion reactor. Fusion power is the energy generated by nuclear fusion processes. In fusion reactions, two light atomic nuclei fuse to form a heavier nucleus (in contrast with fission power). In doing so they release a comparatively large amount of energy arising from the binding energy due to the strong nuclear force which is manifested as an increase in temperature of the reactants. Fusion power is a primary area of research in plasma physics. Background[edit] Binding energy for different atoms. Iron-56 has the highest, it is the most stable.

Mechanism[edit] Fusion happens when two (or more) nuclei come close enough for the strong nuclear force to exceed the electrostatic force and pull them together. Theoretically, any atom could be fused, if enough pressure and temperature was applied.[2] Mankind has studied many high energy fusion reactions, using particles beams.[3] These are fired at a target. Cross Section[edit] where: Lawson criterion[edit] Energy capture[edit] ZETA (fusion reactor) Zeta (uppercase Ζ, lowercase ζ; Greek: ζήτα, classical [ˈdzɛːta] or [ˈzdɛːta] zḗta, Modern Greek: [ˈzita] zíta) is the sixth letter of the Greek alphabet.

In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of 7. It was derived from the Phoenician letter Zayin Name[edit] The word zeta is the ancestor of zed (UK) and zee (US), the names of the Latin letter Z in English. However, many Romanic languages (such as Italian and Spanish), and Scandinavian languages do not distinguish between the Greek and Roman forms of the letter; "zeta" is used to refer to the Roman letter Z as well as the Greek letter. Uses[edit] The Greek alphabet on a black figure vessel, with the Phoenician I shape of the zeta. Letter [edit] The letter ζ represents the voiced alveolar fricative /z/ in Modern Greek. The sound represented by zeta in Classical Greek is disputed.

Most handbooks[who?] Arguments for [zd] [edit] PIE *zd becomes ζ in Greek (e.g. Arguments for [dz] [edit] Summary[edit] Numeral[edit] Meteorology[edit] National Ignition Facility. The National Ignition Facility, located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The target assembly for NIF's first integrated ignition experiment is mounted in the cryogenic target positioning system, or cryoTARPOS. The two triangle-shaped arms form a shroud around the cold target to protect it until they open five seconds before a shot. The National Ignition Facility, or NIF, is a powerful laser-based inertial confinement fusion (ICF) research device, located at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California. NIF uses powerful lasers to heat and compress a small amount of hydrogen fuel to the point where nuclear fusion reactions take place.

NIF's mission is to achieve fusion ignition with high energy gain, and to support nuclear weapon maintenance and design by studying the behavior of matter under the conditions found within nuclear weapons.[1] NIF is the largest and most energetic ICF device built to date, and the largest laser in the world.[2] ICF basics[edit] ITER. An Eyre or Iter was the name of a circuit traveled by an itinerant justice in medieval England (a Justice in Eyre), or the circuit court he presided over,[1] or the right of the king (or justices acting in his name) to visit and inspect the holdings of any vassal.

The eyre involved visits and inspections at irregular intervals of the houses of all vassals in the kingdom. The eyre of 1194, was initiated under Hubert Walter's justiciarship to restore royal justice following the anarchy of Prince John's rebellion. Within two months, justices on eyre had visited every shire in England. The Articles of Eyre appointed local knights as coroners to record crown pleas to be presented to the justices. The 1233 Eyre of Cornwall, provoked terror in the populace causing most of the population to flee into the woods.[3] Blomefield, Francis, (1807) An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: volume 6, p. 244.

Controlling nuclear fusion instabilities. Plasma confinement chamber (credit: EPFL) École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) physicists have succeeded for the first time in preventing the development of instabilities in a nuclear fusion reactor. It’s an important step forward in the effort to build the ITER fusion reactor, currently in development in Southern France. Nuclear fusion is an attempt to reproduce the energy of the Sun in an Earth-based reactor system. When gas is heated to several million degrees, it becomes plasma.

Sometimes in the plasma, an instability will appear and grow large enough to perturb the plasma, making it vibrate despite the presence of the magnetic field in which it is contained. The challenge is to reduce the instabilities deep within in the interior of the plasma so that they don’t amplify, while at the same time allowing the reactor to continue to function normally. Ref.: J.P. New Cold Fusion Evidence Reignites Hot Debate. 25 March 2009—On Monday, scientists at the American Chemical Society (ACS) meeting in Salt Lake City announced a series of experimental results that they argue confirms controversial ”cold fusion” claims. Chief among the findings was new evidence presented by U.S. Navy researchers of high-energy neutrons in a now-standard cold fusion experimental setup—electrodes connected to a power source, immersed in a solution containing both palladium and ”heavy water.”

If confirmed, the result would add support to the idea that reactions like the nuclear fire that lights up the sun might somehow be tamed for the tabletop. But even cold fusion’s proponents admit that they have no clear explanation why their nuclear infernos are so weak as to be scarcely noticeable in a beaker. The newest experiment, conducted by researchers at the U.S. Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, in San Diego, required running current through the apparatus for two to three weeks. New Energy Times- LENR, Low Energy Nuclear Reactions, Nuclear Power and Energy. {*style:<i> New Energy Times </i>*}Low-Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR) Research and Next-Generation Nuclear Power Original reporting and analysis Leader in precise and accurate topical news and information Specializing in low-energy nuclear reaction (LENR) research Next-generation nuclear power/energy Clean energy/Green energy Environmental issues We travel the world, visit laboratories and speak directly with researchers to connect you with the hottest news in energy research and technology.

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