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The Vancouver, Canada-based start-up General Fusion has recently announced that it will begin work on a new type of nuclear fusion reactor as soon as it can pull enough funds together to do so. Experts from the company believe that they could have a working prototype within the next ten years, and that the entire project could cost less than $1 billion to complete. Thus far, General Fusion has managed to secure $13.5 million from both public and private sources, and hopes are high that work will soon begin at the new reactor. Other facilities designed to trigger sustainable nuclear fusion, such as the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), in France, have costs running up to $14 billion, though there are no guarantees that their method of obtaining the elusive reaction are any better than others. According to representatives in the industry, the method employed by General Fusion can best be described as magnetized target fusion. Despite being, in the sc!
ientists' own words, quite a long shot, the method is feasible, and it could work. The new reactor project does not incorporate tokamaks â" the large, expensive, superconducting magnets that ITER relies on â", nor does it make use of extremely powerful lasers, such as the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Live...
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