m3t00🌎@lemmy.worldM to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoNuclear fusion reactor in South Korea runs at 100 million degrees C for a record-breaking 48 secondswww.livescience.comexternal-linkmessage-square222fedilinkarrow-up1371arrow-down17file-textcross-posted to: futurology@lemmy.ml
arrow-up1364arrow-down1external-linkNuclear fusion reactor in South Korea runs at 100 million degrees C for a record-breaking 48 secondswww.livescience.comm3t00🌎@lemmy.worldM to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square222fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: futurology@lemmy.ml
minus-squareDarkThoughts@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoSame as with almost any other reactor: Steam running through turbines. The high temperatures are important to sustain the fusion process. The goal is that it practically self sustains itself while we just continue to feed it with hydrogen.
Same as with almost any other reactor: Steam running through turbines. The high temperatures are important to sustain the fusion process. The goal is that it practically self sustains itself while we just continue to feed it with hydrogen.
Why not magnets
How do those work?
Nobody knows