Remarkableriots Posted July 27, 2023 Share Posted July 27, 2023 Pulsar Fusion to build nuclear fusion-fueled rocket engine WWW.AEROSPACETESTINGINTERNATIONAL.COM Construction of fusion chamber for 500,000mph-capable rocket engine starts Quote UK-based company Pulsar Fusion has started to construct what it says is the largest practical nuclear fusion rocket engine ever built, and intends to fire it in 2027. Engineers at the company are assembling an 8m (26ft) wide fusion chamber capable of containing a plasma several hundred- million degrees centigrade hot when it is fired up in 2027 — temperatures hotter than the Sun. Dr James Lambert, director of operations at Pulsar Fusion said, “The difficulty is learning how to hold and confine the super-hot plasma within an electromagnetic field. “The plasma behaves like a weather system in terms of being incredibly hard to predict using conventional techniques. Scientists have not been able to control the turbulent plasma as it is heated to hundreds of millions of degrees and the reaction simply stops. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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