HUN-REN Researchers Test a Revolutionary Idea for Nuclear Fusion Reactor [Video]

Domestic researchers are trying to improve the efficiency of nuclear fusion reactions by using nanoscale metal particles. The researchers are carrying out the fusion research at the Nanoplasmonic Laser Fusion Research Laboratory of the HUN-REN Wigner Research Center for Physics. This is a new method that could completely rewrite the future of energy production. Experimental validation of the results achieved so far has begun at ELI ALPS in Szeged (southern Hungary).

Fusion power generation is possible in a much more concentrated way, using significantly less raw materials than other current production methods, including nuclear fission power plants, writes Magyar Nemzet. For example, 20 tons of coal is the equivalent of about one kilogram of fissile material (uranium); the same amount of energy can be extracted from one gram of fusion fuel.

Applied research is being carried out worldwide to achieve nuclear fusion.

Given that the most advanced projects are decades away from operational experimental reactors, the …