Canada has just broken a world record in nuclear fusion... [View all]

...and the number of neutrons has put the entire energy industry on alert

Canada has quietly set a new mark in the global race for fusion power. General Fusion says its latest compression experiments produced about 600 million fusion neutrons every second at peak, a record for its magnetized target fusion approach and a clear step toward controlled nuclear fusion.

In simple terms, the company has shown that it can squeeze a ball of super-hot gas hard enough and cleanly enough for fusion reactions to light up in a predictable way. The results come from the long-running Plasma Compression Science experiment series, whose data have been reviewed by independent scientists and published in the journal Nuclear Fusion.

In fusion research, neutron output is one of the main scoreboards, since neutrons carry much of the reaction energy and prove that true fusion is happening. In these experiments, the team achieved a peak rate near 600 million fusion neutrons per second in a single compression shot, a figure that Canadian Nuclear Society leaders describe as a record for magnetized target fusion and an important validation of the concept.

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