Kelly and Zach talk to MIT’s Dr. Bruce Lipschultz and Daniel Brunner about fusion, Alcator C-Mod, and the future of fusion research in the United States.

LINKS

ROFLcon – May 4th and 5th in Cambridge, MA

Fission and nuclear power

Plasma

Fusion

Tokamak

Magnetized target fusion

Fusion start-ups

Tri Alpha

General Fusion

Polywell fusion

Cold Fusion

International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER)

FusionFuture.org – sign the petition to save Alcator C-Mod!

Show correction: The amount of energy gained in fusion verses fission was stated incorrectly. The ‘energy per nucleon’ is ~ 10x larger in fusion than for fission. For more information, visit this site.