Fusion News: DVICE- Science moving closer to creating power through nuclear fusion
Nuclear fusion occurs at high temperatures that wears out equipment it comes into contact with quick. The University of Twente in the Netherlands has found a breakthrough to controlling nuclear fusion through weaving. As reported by DVICE in the article “Science moving closer to creating power through nuclear fusion:”
By weaving two superconductive wires responsible for generating these magnetic fields together with a single copper wire, the resulting cable gains an increased resistance to heat fluctuations. The weaving process can then be repeated until the massive cables needed for a fusion reactor have been constructed. It also turns out that when you increase the pitch (or length across which the copper wire spirals) of this two-to-one weave, the cables become way more efficient at mitigating heat. When that happens, because their excess heat is being sloughed off constantly, fusion reactions can be maintained.
