2020/01/31 by Tom Clynes · 1 citation
Medicine · Social Sciences · Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics · Engineering · #Science, Research, and Medicine #Nuclear Issues and Defense #Chemical Reactions and Isotopes #Fusion power #Nuclear fusion #Nuclear engineering #Fusion #Nuclear power #Engineering #Line (geometry) #Power (physics) #Nuclear physics #Physics
paper · doi:10.1109/mspec.2020.8976899
openalex publication_date 2020/01/31 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2025/11/06
Almost as long as the dream: Nuclear fusion energy is 30 years away...and always will be. But now, more than 80 years after Australian physicist Mark Oliphant first observed deuterium atoms fusing and releasing dollops of energy, it may finally be time to update the punch line.