SmartPlanet – Fusion breakthrough
SmartPlanet – Fusion breakthrough
By Mark Halper | 28 March 2012 – 6:22 AM PDT
A small New Jersey company has reported a big step toward cracking nuclear fusion, the elusive energy source that many people regard as the Holy Grail of power.
Lawrenceville Plasma Physics Inc. said it has confined a gas at 1.8 billion degrees C. Its previous highest temperature was 1.1 billion degrees C, which it hit last year and which it says had stood as a fusion industry record since 1978.
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