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Nuclear power

Nuclear power

Firm takes middle ground to fusion

01 Dec 2011 Hamish Johnston

A Canadian company is planning to build a prototype fusion demonstrator that would be a fraction of the cost of a standard fusion reactor, as Hamish Johnston reports

General Fusion's
Testing grounds" General Fusion's "magnetized target fusion" reactor promises to create fusion plasmas that would be 1000 times denser than those found at the €16bn ITER fusion reactor currently being built in France. (Courtesy: General Fusion)
For most physicists, there are two possible paths to fusion energy. The first is magnetic-confinemen

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