Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy - BBC News
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2022
- European scientists say they have made a major breakthrough in their quest to develop practical nuclear fusion - the energy process that powers the stars.
The UK-based JET laboratory has smashed its own world record for the amount of energy it can extract by squeezing together two forms of hydrogen.
If nuclear fusion can be successfully recreated on Earth it holds out the potential of virtually unlimited supplies of low-carbon, low-radiation energy.
The experiments produced 59 megajoules of energy over five seconds, more than double what was achieved in similar tests back in 1997.
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Really impressed by the camera man being able to stand there.
Is it possible to transcribe fusion I wonder?
Yoooooo I love you man. You’re an icon, please continue gracing us all with your giftedness 🥰 also this is amazing right? The progress has already exceeded expectations, we’ll most certainly have sustainable fusion energy within our lifetimes!
It's because LIGHT travel fast than the sound, so the camera collect all the lights and record it,
Haha - well, he's a son as well...
hi george
*"The power of the sun in the palm of my hands"*
Never thought that would become a reality
Wym u think this universe got limits
you mean power greater than the sun in the palm of your hands.
good ol spooderman reference right? doc oc?
Exactly where my mind went
1:53 They even use robotic arms to work on it!
The power of the sun in the palm of my hand!
the power of the hand in the palm of my son
We have fission which could do the same thing from decades already. So yeah, they don't care about clean energy after all. It's all a lie, they just want to remove our rights
The suns hand in the power of my palm
The vower of the hun in the qualm of your gland!
The power of Wills hand in the face of Chris Rock.
It's hard because in the sun it is a combination of vast pressures (due to gravity) and temperature. We cannot simulate the pressure here on earth, so we can compensate by boosting the temperature to something like 7x the temperature of the sun's core. That's why it's hard. You have to boost the temps to that and hold it, and do it efficiently enough so that the energy released by the fusion is more than what you put in to reach those conditions.
And then add on top of that a power grid and you’ve got yourself a recipe for widespread outages if the technology is rushed
@@eznack1489 That’s not how power grids work…
@@DaryxFox otaku that watched rat hack scene from the core movie prolly, like dude hack the western seaboard and messed up the whole western NA
Rat hack scene parody lollipop 4ch*
Lies again? Face Of New England
Unless I'm mistaken and it's a technical term, 50 kettles of energy is the most British thing one could say to explain the energy output.
Literally scanning the comments to see if anyone else felt this way.
😂😂😂
Don't misrepresent their work, it's 60 kettles
it makes as much sense as BTU to be honest...
what's 50 kettles in metric? :P
Just like Doc Ock once said,
"The power of the sun, in the palm of my hand."
That's what came in my mind lol
🧐
The precious tritium
Was looking for someone to mention doc ock lmao
What if... In this multiverse there's a chance that there might be a real spider man 👀
The weird audio "scratches" between transitions are really annoying
Thank you scientists. You are doing great work! Hope my children or grandchildren will be able to benefit from this.
Idiots this is not good 😂
As a nuclear engineer and former plasma physicist: keep up the good work, this will change everything for future generations!
I do wish people understood this is viable *for future generations*. These reactions are still ran at a massive net loss of energy without even taking into account inefficiency of the potential heat to electricity conversion.
@@AmorDeae Because thinking about the heat to electricity conversion and it's inefficiencies now when we haven't yet been able to generate a plasma that produces more energy than it takes to keep the reaction going is like putting the cart before the horse.
@@rodneyhogrefe6180 well yeah, if it produced more, we'd have fusion power by now
giant war robots, incoming!
China done the same thing as this and everyone called it evil. UK does it and it's considered great. People need to understand the true bias in reporting from MSM
Scientists: “Unlimited energy!”
Energy Companies: “Double the price because it’s unlimited”
So I work for an energy company and I was wondering about this myself. Of course we'd need more than one plant just for redundancy's sake, but how many do we need? What power companies could actually build one to survive? Having unlimited/clean energy is the holy grail for moving forward, but I'm selfishly wondering what would happen to my job as well.
@@Harrison.DuRant You might be retired by the time this would even become of any concern.
@@inuliger That's what I was thinking too. I'm thinking that even if it did happen in the next 20 years, it would still take at least 10 years at a minimum for them to build them and train the staff on how to operate them.
@@Harrison.DuRant This entire conversation really just tied into the fact that a lot of jobs are going to become obsolete in the next century. As automation advances and power becomes more accessible, entry-level jobs, and those that require simple, repetitive work, are going to plummet in demand. I think that unemployment is going to skyrocket in coming decades, but who knows?
@@Connor_Kirkpatrick I completely agree. I mean, I work in IT, so I know I could go other places and find a job, but a LOT of guys that I service would be completely out of a job. As technology flies forward, tons of jobs will be left in the dust.
The possibility of a resonance cascade scenario is extremely unlikely.
The only Xen we're gonna get is Xen gardens.
"BBC doesn't need to hear all this, they're highly trained professionals. We've assured the public that _nothing_ will go wrong."
@@spookifyr Nothing will go wrong. Nuclear fusion is very safe, because it is not self sustaining like fission. turn the magnets off and the fusion will immediately stop. And that is also the problem. we still really struggle with sustaining nuclear fusion and we also struggle with extracting the created energy.
@@HeavyMetalGamingHD how do you turn a magnet off?
@@atlasfeynman1039 did you ever hear of the concept of a electric magnet?
I watched the first 10 seconds of this video like 20 times, that's unbelievable
Tbh it got me tearing up. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
And unbelievable because it is a fake.
@@johnbreitmeier3268 unhinged take lol
@@deville3319 yes, very unhingedi of you to think you were watching a real fusion reaction. Like a camera could survive one. Lol! You watched a simulation, a cartoon.
@@johnbreitmeier3268 huh? im confused so this hasn't happened then
The Fusion Reactor will be up there with agriculture, the Internet, combustion engines and the wheel as one of the most important inventions of all time
meany we can get close in 300ys
I would add vaccines and penicillin those things single handily lengthened the life span of humans.
@@huda2379And minecraft
Fusion could solve almost all our problems on earth (except politics) and it is our key to the stars
Reversal of biological aging and AGI will be a level above that again.
For these physicists that was the best 5 seconds of their lives so far.
@@ilicdjo of course they get more money as they work on development of technology unlike you.planarian
@@ilicdjo insanely hard but not impossible
@@ilicdjo that’s true for now, but they haven’t incorporated the latest generation of superconducting materials yet, which will cut the electrical energy cost tremendously
@@ilicdjo Seems normal to me.
They work on a miraculous energy source and I play Mario Kart when bored.
Funny enough that’s what my girlfriend said
We should as a society praise and cover these researchers and scientists as much as we cover these useless influencers, that would inspire kids to pursue science and ultimately move us forward faster
Totally agree 👍
What about christiano ronaldo
🤓
@@alexanderalex8667I was wondering the same, and Selena Gomez 😅
I know this is British, but I loved “only enough power to power 30 kettles”.
60!! DOUBLE THE KETTLES
I can’t imagine the level of precision engineering to put this thing together. Congrats to the team! Question is when can we expect Mr. Fusion?
.... you have to ask Dr. E. Brown to get liable answers.....🤣
Well the answer for the last 80 years is always “10-20 years away”…
I think Einstein’s quote somes up the viability of Nuclear Fusion as viable power source: “Doing the same thing over and over again is the sign of insanity”….
@@TheSigmaGrindSet Einstein never actually said that. And for good reason; repetition is how humans learn.
@@PropaneWP yes
@@PropaneWP ok clever clogs the actual quote is:
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
- Albert Einstein
Repetition is not how humans learn something new, that’s called practice…
The “Scientific Method” is now we learn something new…
“Google it” my learned friend and become a critical thinker…
Nuclear Fusion as a viable power source will never happen (it’s pure science fiction); what new major breakthroughs have happened in the last 80 years….
None, thats why it’s insanity….
It’s one of the biggest scientific scams of all time, the billions of dollars spent in this scientific folly could of been invested into R&D of real world practical solutions like: Carbon Capture of Fossil Fuels; Increased efficiency of Renewables & Safer Nuclear Fission (Reactors, Processing & long term storage)….
This is coming from a scientist with a Ph.D…
What was surprising to me, was that they were able to build something that could withstand temperatures "10 times hotter than the heart of the sun". I honestly didn't think that was possible. And that was for 5 seconds. The idea of building a structure that could take that temperature 24/7 is amazing.
That is the point of magnetic containment, the hot stuff is kept away from the sides of the physical container.
@@mattd2129 as well as the cryostat that is kept near zero Kelvin
Think of the physics of keeping something that cool magnetically when it comes to other activities (terran exploration for example)
China did 130 seconds way better than them
Well we have the ultimate insulator: Vacum :)
I remember when the leader of the windmill demonstraters said that their main concern with windmills was that they wings require so much electricity to spin around.
That thing looks like the tunnel from "The Flash"
Kudos to those young people who are striving so diligently to benefit all of us. It’s nice to hear good news for a change.
You think it's going to us and not big government people to rip people off.
@@darkhalf9134 It belongs to our corporate overlords, it is our god given duty to serve their demands and wishes
prop to whoever is funding this since there's probably easier ways to make money than research that won't generate money for at least another decade.
@@RelianceIndustriesLtd u
@@mirroqt694 me
*"Why does it takes so long* ?
Because it's really hard."
That's what she said
thank you sherlock
I would bet money that she tried to explain it the first take, and they deemed it would go over the viewers' heads, so they did a retake with her saying it was really hard
i guess you can sit through a 10 episode documentary for the full explanation, but that won't fit in a two-minute clip
@@JoshuaCheng10101 exactly
Even its hotter than the sun, it still can't defeat the cameraman with his camera
Figuring it out is the hardest part, refining the process/making perform better is part of the fun.
Hats off to all the hard working Scientists ❤️🇱🇰
Its stolen from China
@@molamola8305 not really, both stole it from the soviets who created the first tokamak.
@@molamola8305 China copies every other country anyway so who cares
@@molamola8305 China steals everything from elsewhere! 😂
I dont have a hat. 🙄
what a good time to be 15 years old. to see 50+ years of scientific development when I grow old is such a huge motivation for me to not die, i wanna see more stuff like this change the world
Enjoy your the rest of your life
IKR? So much intricate technologies waiting to be uncovered.
I don’t, I like what nature gave us. The balance gave us the power to “create” this incredible technologies. Atomic bombs are created to be used.
Enjoy the rest of your teen years and spend them wisely too! It may be difficult and hard, but trust me these years are great. Im 18 now and only realising now, and regret choosing to laze about every day instead of actually spending time with people.
Be careful about that. Technological stagnation has been happening since the 2010s. For instance, the iPhone 13 has the same connector as the iPhone 5 (2012). I still recommend that you live though. Photonic computing is just around the corner (Lightmatter company) ツ
1970s: First card payment at a store
2021: Most people still use cards, instead of Apple or Google Pay
2012: First Lightning iPhone
2021: iPhone 13 uses lightning port
2017: First Hybrid game console (Switch)
2021: Nintendo Switch OLED has same hardware as 2017 model.
1990s: First car with touchscreen display and backup camera
2021: Some car models lack a touchscreen display and backup camera
1996: First mainstream electric car (GM)
2017: Tesla markets the Model 3
1903: First manned aircraft flight
1949: First supersonic flight
1969: Humans land on the moon
2021: No humans on Mars yet?
1980s: First robots in automobile factories
2021: US uses Chinese labor in sweatshops for clothing.
The power of the sun, in the palm of my hand
Not really accurate
@@Classicalmusicscores1984 it’s a dialogue from spider man😑😑😑
how can it be 10x hotter then the core of the sun but its not hot enough to melt the metal and the camera?
Thats absolute nonsense.
Research how big the sun is... and what kind of forces are inside of it.
This looks like a late '90s music video.
"enough power for 60 kettles"
Glad to know that Americans don't have a monopoly on measuring things with stupid units.
🤣🤣
Where do you think we got it from?
America might use the stupid units but the English INVENTED them
@@korbit8307 +1
How much is that in microwave ovens?
I love that the power is being measured in kettles
It’s the uk
Tea is what’s important
Standard units of measurement:
Kettles
Football pitches
Olympic size swimming pools
The size of Wales
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 it’s always about the tea!!!!!!
imagine if it was american scientists
@Brian Mwaura "5 washingmachines worth of energy"
Interesting but, understandibly, much essential information missing here.
The device through which one of the scientists walked basically looks like a Tokamak being used since the 1960s but on a much larger scale. No surprises here.
Most significant, if told correctly and interpreted correctly, is there is a small energy gain over a period of 5 seconds. This indeed is a significant improvement over the tens to hundred milliseconds achieved at the end of the 1970s.
Compared with nuclear fission plants the advantages of fusion plants are so overwhelming that we really should invest in that road. But given, as said, that the tokamak route is being researched since the 1960s it will be a very long time for that route to deliver a lsignificant output fission factory.
even with sustained fusion there is no useable energy gain as there in no power conversion system.. fusion is not practicle, fission seems archaic but there are advanced reactors being devloped these days
@@samuelforsyth6374 No power conversion system?? Mate why just make comments about things you clearly don't know about.
@@Kvltklassik enlighten me, I only know about 4~5 tokamak designs and none of them do..
@@Kvltklassik No please Jason, can you expand on your statement as I would really like to know the answer!
How are they planning on extracting the energy this high temperature plasma sealed inside a vacuum chamber; remember the cryogenic superconducting magnetics are designed to keep it away from, and melting through the, walls of the chamber?
@@Kvltklassik could you answer Samuel ?
I fused my ass to the couch so I know it's possible.
how can it be 10x hotter then the core of the sun but its not hot enough to melt the metal and the camera?
Thats absolute nonsense.
Research how big the sun is... and what kind of forces are inside of it.
Scientist don't get enough appreciation for the work that they are doing thank you
Yep. Then lets go to science-youtubers and support them till no End.
They actually do. These scientists are given dinners, gala events, research grants, rights to publishing their books, interviews like this one, etc. They’re given plenty of appreciation, which they’ve earned - unless they’re lying or misleading the public, which sometimes even the most charming and interesting scientists will do - think Theranos, for example. I’m skeptical that anyone could create a fusion reactor, so it’s unlikely this is the real thing, but I hope I’m wrong because if these truly are the brightest and they can do it, and the energy to run it doesn’t cancel it out, then fusion is the way to go.
And instead get torn apart for their recommendations on the importance and effectiveness of vaccines.. go figure.
@@Bikewithlove
Isn't a hydrogen fuel cell basically a mini fusion reactor of sorts? Also, our bodies use a type of fission and fusion, converting oxygen and sugar into carbon dioxide, water, and energy. We know that fusion is possible, but we're trying to figure out whether or not it's worth it. Though maybe that's what you meant.
Imagine if they got the funding they needed. This would be a different world. A large part of their time is spent trying to get grants for their work.
The fact that people are even making fusion reactions happen at ALL Is unbelievably amazing.
i mean they sadi that about the nuclear reacter but now people confuse it with safty hazards and pollution/unclean energy
@@thekak2627 uh fission is unclean and has a lot of pollution.
fusion is the clean one which is why they're focusing on it and shutting down fission plants.
fission reactors, (nuclear reactors as you say,) have spent fuel rods to store, tillings from mining the uranium, and all the biproducts that can't be used due to their instability alongside the fact that nuclear fuel is the same stuff used for nuclear bombs.
fusion is the clean one because it's only smashing hydrogen to form helium, where the energy comes from that process alone.
fission is where they literally have to mine uranium, chemically alter it with solutions until they get yellow cake, (which has a ton of toxic waste,) and then they have to transport it which has its own dangers because of pirates. - ps, not in that order, transporting is most likely done before the refining so that all waste is created on the site of nuclear compounds, it's still extremely dirty and no "nuclear fission" reactor is clean.
@@A_piece_of_broccoli its still a lot cleaner than carbon energy
@@A_piece_of_broccoli okay so 1 the waste from a nuclear reacter is not to much of a problem if treated and disposed of correclty, the diffrence between a nuclear reacater and bomb it that a atmoic bomb/hydrogen bomb has the uranium/plotium isotope at super crictal, reacaters have it just enough to super heat steam to turn a turbine to generate power, a fusion reacter is not a simple as taking a hydrogen to make helium, pllus most reacters today us a mix of urnaim and plotiumum, for safty they use more lead the your entire elemenary school weighed, some over 3 feet of solid reforced lead. a single house brick size of plotunim can power nyc for roughly 2 - 8 weeks give or take. your microwave (if you even have one) had a piace of plotuim in it about the size of a dollar coin (roughly) also there a diffrence from dirty and radioactive hazzard, depleated uranium can be used in uranium in fused glass (depleated uranium isnt radioactive) and also and be proccessed into americium 114, which is used in smoke detcters. also in theroy you could genertae uranium/plotuim through a quantum tunneling. i might add more but i have a feeling your brain is now a fried omlete from that info
You mean because of all the brainless activists? Yes thats amazing
The people working on this are very intelligent and very brave indeed. I hope all goes well and safe for the future of humanity and our planets resources
Why are they brave? Fusion is fairly safe, radiation disappears very quickly. Extremely intelligent though, they're doing incredibly well.
@@rivvelmusic well brave cause Nuclear Fusion is not like something to play with, one needs to know what theyre doing for it to be safe. Not like anyone can do it in a DIY homemade video 😅😅😅 Its basically the power of the Sun and other stars contained within a man made structure.
@@CMONCMON007 Well yes and no? The danger is in the radioactivity, which disappears rather quickly in comparison to fission. The reaction isn't self sustaining, and we can't keep it going for long, which is why we don't have it right now. Once the conditions it needs to react aren't met, it stops. If the reactor breaks, the reaction stops. No nuclear meltdowns, which is one of the best things about it.
Brave? Lmao
@@CMONCMON007 fusion reactors are relatively safe actually.
Thanks for the all involved in this breakthrough research
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I would never ask a nuclear physicist “why is it so hard” like i would even be able to understand the complexity of such a question
Apparently neither would the interviewer because he didn't ask that question.
He said ‘Why is it taking so long?’.
@@WatDoino because the scientist who is making these is only working part-time of course!
Why is it so hard?
Answer: That's what she said
@@WatDoino The length does not matter, pay attention to the girth.
the power of the sun.. in the palm of my hands
You bozo, I WANTED TO SAY THAT! +1
that's why the aliens are appearing
I have the Power of a Thousand and One Suns
And it’s not even that dangerous, imagine the commercial purposes of this: destruction of coal and nuclear plants in favor of almost unlimited power.
DAMMIT, you beat me to it
In school, 40 years ago, I was told that a "successful fusion reactor is 30 years away... ...and always will be."
Sounds like something a school teacher would say.
"and always will be" If humans can stay alive and keep being able to do science, it is very likely to succeed. Just look at the development of current tech. In 500 years, for example, I think humanity will have it.
It will happen at some point, just depends on how many people work on it.
@@Kvltklassik Those who can't do, teach.
this just proves the power Cameramen have and how they deserve the respect of the masses-
Absolutely stunning work, I hope I can see this come to commercial use but that may not happen given my age. But for my daughters to can and I thank you and all of your hard work and dedication.
If we invest, we can do this in 10 years.
We understand how we can control the plasma, how to do this sun thing on a small scale the only question now.
i hope private companies will start investing in these other than rockets
@@bing7748 We need rockets, too, since the moon has material needed for this technology, and first comes commercial use of MSBRs.
@@nuqwestr You might have misinterpreted. 'other than' implies two or more choices that are equally important. i did not used 'rather than'.
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Physicists are such wonderful optimists, and at most times, they truly deliver as well.
Lets not talk about James Webb ;)
James Webb, Higgs boson, black hole imaging, gravitational wave observations, superconductors, microprocessors... And now potentially real sustainable nuclear fusion all within one Human's lifetime. ✨
@@krishyfishy1 JWST hasn't been calibrated yet. The image released was of a single star which they're going to use to align the mirrors. I'm sure when it's all set up it will be a lot more impressive.
@@VeryIntellijent as a computer scientist I don't think that we will see artificial general intelligence any time soon. The biggest issue right now is that we don't even remotely understand how the brain works or what the driving factor was for consciousness to evolve. It's really the neuroscience holding us back from AGI but the software isn't all there either. In regular machine learning we use a very simplified model of a neuron and if we want AGI we may need to model the whole thing. I can't remember the exact number but a research paper was published last year showing that to model a neuron properly it would require the computational power needed to simulate thousands (or was it tens of thousands?) of regular ML neurons.
Get it right free power.. _Get it wrong bye bye humans_
"enough for sixty ketals"
*God save the Queen plays at full volume*
We all need this working ASAP
I don't think people have any idea of how much electricity we can genuinely create once this project is fully maximised. The Sun releases a massive amount of energy. Theoretically, nuclear fusion could release up to 4 times the amount of energy that nuclear fission releases. It's also 100% safe. Nuclear meltdowns would be close to impossible. This means that making electricity could become 100% sustainable and much much cheaper. It also means that Porsche might actually succeed with their sustainable fuel project, as one of the main problems is the sheer amount of electricity needed to make it and the sustainability factor. Nuclear fusion is the future of electricity.
Next Gen Nuke does not have "melt-down" issue, walk-away safe, and available now.
Also means mining of bitcoins wouldn't be an issues Hahahaha
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And then consider the possibilities of miniaturization. Technology like this becomes smaller, more controlled and more adaptable as materials science evolves. This is the kind of power which could propel us across the universe in vast ships. Previously that would have only been theoretically possible with nuclear power, which would be far less sustainable over such a distance.
@@yunghoprincelysafeh8199 Don't laugh, unlimited energy and Qbit blockchain will ignite a punctuation point in human evolution.
I am really happy they are making progress... This energy source has been 20 years away for the last 40 years..
Now it might only be 10 years away - for the next 40 years.
"50 years away foe the past 50 years." I've been seeing a lot more "breakthroughs" lately so maybe its actually within 50 years away and not "50 years away" every new year.
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It hasn't though, that's just how people perceive it. I remember discussions about this in the 90s and they were saying it wouldn't happen until money was invested. Over the last 10-15 years that money has been invested, and private entities have been driving this science forward. Over the last 5 years we've been seeing progress seemingly every 6 months. To me that all seems like quite reasonable advancement over such a time. I think people just need to pay less attention to attention-grabbing clickbait blogs and more attention to the actual scientific progress being made.
No money for big energy companies
So I'm not the only one that looked at this and thought it was a screenshot from Event Horizon, right?
Holy shit, that movie is amazing. Yh it reminded me of the sentient space ship. One of my favourite sci-fi horror movies of all time.
It finally happened!!! Cannot believe they did it! Congratulations! New hope for the whole humanity!
Wrong video, this was nearly a year ago. This isn't even the method they used in the recent ignition experiment.
Fission existed for decades now. That was the new hope for humanity
It's amazing to think how far we've come as a species. Just think how far we could go if we put aside petty things and focus on the betterment of the species as a whole
capitalists and oligarchs will always stop us from doing this
@@fionnharman3741 Bro communists destroy environments just as much as capitalists do
@@chellenge6447 maybe but they do it with a sense of togetherness and belonging!
@@chellenge6447 There are many more ideologies which could work better than communism or capitalism.
That’s impossible to set aside our differences
This is the highest amount of fusion power ever produced, which is an achievement for JET yes, but the fusion gain factor "Q" is what's important. The Q effectively means the ratio of heat produced compared to the heat input. Anything less than 1 means you used more energy than you get out of it. We've only been able to consistently get above 1 through the use of fission bombs, which are obviously not practical for power generation. JET's Q from this experiment is only .33, JET previously set a record of .67 decades ago, and the record right now is NIF's .70.
Thank you! Came to the comments looking for this info. Unfortunately, that's what I expected.
While immensely important, physical Q=1 break-even point is just a stepping stone in making a viable fusion power station. Q has to be well above unity (in the dozens) in order to cover the power consumed by the reactor’s and station’s ancillary equipment such as cooling/cryoplant, vacuum pumps, fuel and product handling equipment, instrumentation and safety systems, and even lighting in the guard’s booth.
Nobody remembers the elephant foot
I swear I hope they will never have a melt down
@@_Kenji_717 there is not enough material in a fusion reactor to cause very serious dangers. A failure is nowhere near as catastrophic as that of a fission reactor.
They are very different technologies that just happen to make use of the same fundamental force holding particles together.
I still look at this with amazement ...
Here we are ... fusion, and its amazing
“The power of the sun in the palm of my hand”
Yes
Absolutely incredible work hats off to all the hard working scientists involved this could be a game changer not only for providing cheaper energy to the masses but all so to save the environment from fossil fuels
Climate activists demonize this technology, there is too much money in Carbon Tax and Big Oil to allow this to thrive. Remember the breakthroughs with the Hydrogen engine that vanished out of the public eye?
this is the work of the devil it is evil it must be banned.
you think it will be cheaper for the masses? interesting
The masses will not be having anything cheaper.
Cheaper energy yes. But as is the way, the masses will have to pay for the investment which never seems to get paid off.. 🤔
I lived in Oxford 15 years ago. My upstairs neighbor was a nuclear physicist working on fusion. He had recently decided to focus his career on management instead of research. He told me that fusion power would not happen in his career. He said, possibly in 50 years, but that was still very optimistic.
the joke fusion is always 10 years away...
Humans have always been terrible at predicting the pace of progress. In the late 1800’s newspapers were proclaiming that humans wouldn’t take flight for centuries and decades later the Wright Brothers were gliding in the breeze. Half a century later and we put a man on the moon. In the 80’s we predicted flying cars to which 40 years later it’s hardly a thought on our minds. I don’t think even the experts in the field could know when this phenomenal technology could exist or if it ever will. Science is always changing and with every breakthrough it’s challenging to predict the next. A new breakthrough might come in the next 10 years and solve the energy crisis with fusion reactors. We could possibly have to wait a lifetime for fusion to be viable. Hell we might find an alternative to fusion and THAT will fix everything. The future is uncertain, so just enjoy the advancements we are making today that could lead us into tomorrow
@@Metronomical3 What i love about your comment is that, hey, maybe it wont be fusion, maybe it can take 10 years or maybe a lifetime. But within your comment, it happens eventually, and that to me is enough to have a hopeful future.
Ok? Fusion energy still isn’t even close to being implemented.
@@Metronomical3 flying cars is dependent upon people. How do you create “skyways”, account for the possible failure of the flying vehicle (falling onto the ground below, what damage could that have) etc. not to say it’s impossible, it’s just incredibly challenging for more reasons than just the technology
Also this is just a side note to one of your thoughts, overall I’d definitely agree though!!
How can we reach temps 10x the core of our sun and it doesnt melt any metal that was in contact with its heat like in 0:10?
To the best of my knowledge, magnetic containment. EXTREMELY strong magnetic fields keeping any particles from actually touching the walls of the reactor, so the amount of that heat actually transferring is VERY low relatively speaking.
As long as you don't turn yourself into an octopus cyborg I guess it's a good deal.
Agreed: hardworking scientists, computer programmers, engineers, machinists!
Nobody stole anything from anyone. THIS is what real science is: published for the world to analyze.
well, this experiment didn't improved during the last 20 years. Billions spent... well some people have been robbed.
You are talking like they gonna let the world use it...
For example us iranians made nuclear reactors , and you Europeans and Americans put sanctions on us.
You're just disgusting and you're making science disgusting too
@@aaaaaa-hh8cq Iranians are not developping nuclear energy, they are developping nuclear weapons.
@@aaaaaa-hh8cq what Bob said
@@BobGolob unlike the united states and their non-exisent nuclear weapons right?
This piece remarkably leaves out one of the most important pieces of information.
As I understand it, the plasma was only sustained for 5 seconds because of the physical limitations of this reactor, not because it collapsed or failed in some regard. They can't physically keep going by choice because it would seriously damage the reactor. The ITER reactor (much larger and currently being built in France) has already been designed with this in mind. So, if everything is correct, there is a good chance that when ITER starts up in 2025 it will prove functional within the first few months of testing.
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China has held the fusion point for over a thousand seconds.
@@aberum1798 China's EAST is also a part of ITER, so that's great news.
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No it hasn't. It held a very hot temperature for quite some time not fusion itself.
@@codprawn exactly, would have been great news already if they did fusion for that long.
Wow, that glitchy sound played on all the transitions is super obnoxious.
This was done in the Tokamak with earlier tests getting I think around 22 and the recent tests were getting 59.... The strange thing is that it's only run for about 5 seconds.
JET requires 500 MW of power for each short pulse, with a brief peak power of over 1000 MW. That is a considerable proportion of UK's generating capacity, sufficient to risk putting the rest of Oxfordshire's lights and mains electricity off.
The National Grid limit JET's power consumption to 575 MW, and that is supplemented on-site by two very large flywheels which can each provide a brief 400 MW pulse. We need both the National Grid and both flywheels to be available ( for the flywheels that means having them spinning at 225 revolutions per minute which for a 775 tonne flywheel is no mean feat ) before starting a JET pulse fusion reaction.
Remember that this is a research Tokamak, not a power generating one. In a power generating Tokamak, once we get past the summit of heating the plasma up to make the fusion reaction self-sustaining, the electrical power produced will have a proportion of it fed back into sustaining the reaction. In addition you need to constantly feed the plasma with freshly injected deuterium and tritium, and remove the so called fusion "ash" which is caused by fast neutrons interacting with the remaining fusion fuel, and also wearing out the tungsten shielding blocks that protect the vacuum vessel walls from radiation damage.
I see the great progress they're making toward the next generation of Nvidia GPUs
Don't get your hopes high, Mr. Gamer! Crypto miner moonbois are coming for this, too!
@@clandeszipp4564 Let them at least then their minting process will be carbon free and not killing the planet
@@clandeszipp4564 what are you talking about child? bitcoin is being mined on asic miners, NOT GRAPHIC CARDS, and ethereums days for mining are over.
@@Archonsx Asic miners are shit compared to graphics cards, only a few algorithms supported and they last few years until they stop making any profit, and then throw them out, because after that they are worthless.
Don't tell anyone but they're using the fusion reactor to mine crypto.
"Only produced enough power for about 60 kettles" is the most BBC thing i've ever heard 🤣
Its simply the british version of americas football fields or washing machine measurements
tbh 60 kettles is 150ish kw
Earl Grey, hot please.
I love how one option is "enough power to produce electricity for 3000 homes if the reaction were maintained" and they went with 60 kettles of heat. The commitment to being British is 110%. Also a fair description since the reaction did use more power than it put out so it is technically inaccurate to say you could produce electricity with this machine
That about 600 cups of tea😋
This is so incredibly exciting
We're always just a few years away from fusion it seems.
The power of nuclear fusion. That is what powers the stars of our sky and soon enough we may have that power in Marseille, and then the world. A spectical of human ingenuity!
if we don't destroy ourselves with wars and nuclear warfare first,that is
Didn't china made their artificial sun TOKOMAK few days back using same principle?
Marseillaise is a revolution song and the french national anthem. Could it be that you mean Marseille?
Guess which mugs will be paying for all this crap……
@@magnus7857 yeah, that would be right; I wrote the name and I was pondering on how it didn’t look right but also remembered it was a French city name so it wasn’t supposed to look right so I just went with that lol
"creating mini stars inside like this reactor is the greatest technological challenge humanity has ever faced" - this is the stepping stone concept for our civilization to achieve the historical transition in the kardashev scale
Into full type 1 babie
Well, that or someone creates a 2,200,000,000 megaton fusion bomb that tears open a black hole on the surface of the newly liquified earth.
@@Randomadventureswithpaul If it were that easy to create a fusion bomb or black hole bomb, we'd be seeing them all over the sky from natural cosmological events.
Indeed
Which *Contacting private number*
Yes they are doing that but i hope we can get past this *as long as that Anomaly doesn't occur*
I've been ranting about this for over a decade now, just going by population and technological growth humans should hit our population cap of 11.5 billion around the year 2100 and we'll be Type 1 around the same time. I believe once boomers die out slowly over the next decade we will see the world shift towards more collaboration and mega projects that benefit the entire world
60 tea kettles of power!? How much is that in football fields?
Thank you guys
We’ve been a decade away from Fusion Energy for like 50 years now 😩
Still, kudos to all the great minds whose efforts bring us closer to breakthrough
No, we've been a decade away from a universal cancer cure, for about fifty years. Controllable nuclear fusion has been 20 years away. Fingers crossed 🤞
@@tonytravels2494 please go away
@Mr. Batman Beggins no, people have been warning about it for 50 years. Big difference
@@Kelpic Can't change climate change. We accelerate it, yes. But its a never ending loop we can't break. We should focus on looking 200 years ahead of what the climate looks like then, and prepare in advance.
@Mr. Batman Beggins From the timescale of the Earth, that’s like 5 minutes
Exciting that fusion will be getting close to break even. Hopefully once that milestone is broken, lots more investment (private and public) will go into developing power plants.
Some say it's only 30 years away!
I would be optimistic to see fusion power plants in 30 years. I think people 30 years ago thought we would of had fusion power today due to the huge funding given to projects like the space program.
and now germany is closing power plants... sad
@@therobberpanda honestly so stupid governments and green peace want to remove nuclear power.
@@jamespartington8726 Literally the dumbest thing
Fusion technology is here and the countdown voice at the start was from a Sound Blaster 16
cant wait to see them Mr. handy's in the future
Amazed, first positive news the BBC has reported in 2 years
Lmfao true 🤣
Sad but accurate
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You're confusing BBC News with Disney.
BBC News isn't there to give you bedtime stories.
@@ct5625 But they should give us news. Not just bad news.
“The power of the sun in the palm of my hand” - Dr Otto Octavius
*Tries to test a fusion reactor in an NYC apartment
@@spartanK42 Rosie, our friend here thinks I'm going to blow up the city.
The thumbnail looks like a venue where 90’s R&B are taken at.
It's incredible to think that 40 years from now we'll have unlimited energy. Im so glad this keeps getting funded.
“This is machine is 150 million degrees, 10 times hotter than the sun”
This guy: **stands inside it**
"Short term radiation"
Stands in it
@Nei Gong Adept it's true haha. I was studying this today in my physics class
@Nei Gong Adept you...don't believe nukes exist? Have you ever been to Hiroshima may I ask? Or Chernobyl? You anti science people get more outlandish every day
@Nei Gong Adept Of.....nukes? Hmm, let's ask the ashes burned into the concrete in one of the only two places where nukes were used in war if they were real. Oh wait, they were disintegrated, by a nuke that is. Tell me, with well over 100 nuclear peace treaties likely having been put in place after Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Cold War, how could one deny the existence of nuclear bombs?
@Nei Gong Adept Dawg he was literally disentagrated. Idk what else to say, never before have I seen or heard something so ignorant. You're telling me that some napalm bomb or fire bomb would have forced Imperial Japan to surrender in a war, an act previously unheard of from the Japanese? Doesn't that sound a little....silly?
Finally, humanity is close to saying "The power of the sun in the palm of my hand."
I was looking for this comment lmao
@@lukyluk2828 me too
@@lukyluk2828 same
Thanks for the comment.
@@KevinJDildonik Let Otto have his fun
Amazing work. Getting there 👌🏼
I for one welcome our fusion reactor masters.
"TONY STARK WAS ABLE TO BUILD THIS IN A CAVE!!!"
Congratulations to the whole team for making this incredible discovery! A giant leap for all mankind!
You're living in a dream world, Neo.
This is indeed commendable work
But there's no such thing as "mankind"
pretty bonkers claim considering mankind would only have to exist as a word for a hypothetical for that claim to be false. which it self evidently is. all surviving hominids are genetically conpatible so there has been no speciation event to make two species so mankind as a blanket term works just fine.
technically theres no such thing as race in humans but the phrasing and perception of race is very real unfortunately.
man is perfectly capable of being kind it is just really bad at communicating why this is a needed lesson from a brutal tooth and claw end perspective. the short version is you dont survive long alone.
@@IndigoWhiskey
Peter: There is no santa clause
Paul : pretty bonkers claim considering santa Claus would only have to exist as a word for a hypothetical for that claim to be false
You my friend are astoundingly daft
@@IndigoWhiskey
And who said anything about race
There is no such thing as race, you dimwit
May be in future the small sized fusion reactor can be added to ships/planes and other transport vehicles as alternate source of energy.
Today we can already use fission reactor, we Don’t have to wait nuclear fusion
I love media units of measurement. Usually football pitches, double decker buses or Olympic swimming pools. Now kettles.
I like how there’s a fire exit in the reaction chamber like you wouldn’t immediately be vaporised if you were in there
OSHA regulations ftw. In all seriously though, the reactor is probably off most of the time, with technicians working on the electronics inside.
@@bigsmall246 IIRC at JET, humans aren't allowed in the reactor hall _period._ There's a really complex robot that is controllable from outside the reactor hall that is used for maintenance, but I'm pretty sure the reactor hall is off limits period. There's a Tom Scott video about JET that goes into a bit more depth with how it actually works
@@richardmillhousenixon but the presenter was doing a piece to camera from inside at around the 1 minute mark.
@@Milamberinx They have a second setup that is inactive specifically for training. Again, watch the Tom Scott video, it explains all this.
The first flight by the Wright brothers only lasted 12 seconds and that was only just over 100 years ago..., imagine the potential of this amount of power. Well done team..., well done.
Those were 2 dudes too. This project takes thousands of top tier scientists using most advanced software and machine algorithms and material science to essentially replicate the power of the sun without the luxury of gravity. If wright brothers task is a difficulty 5 out of a 100 then this is 95 out of 100.
We went from the Wright brother first flight to landing on the moon in 60 years. In the same time fusion has improved… but very slowly. Fusion is a very slow technology
@@jerry3790 to be fair flying to the moon hard but not that hard
@@jk9999999able It was the hardest thing that our human race has accomplished. And fusion is looking to be ever harder than that
@@jerry3790 glad you guys are impressed with this very expensive experiment now here is your electric bill.............
When he said 10 times hotter than the heart of the sun, I felt that shit
The camera man is invisible, strong...
Of course he can stand in that machine
I wrote a high school paper on fusion energy back in 1979. The speed of light is fixed for all observers. And too with practical fusion, it's a constant 30 years out...
Brother, 1979 is about 40 years ago.
@@laurentiusmichaelgeorge1118 Geez, I even provided the monster clue referencing the speed of light.
In 1979, it was thirty years out. The day after I turned in the paper, it was thirty years out. Today, it's still thirty years out. Tomorrow and next year it will still be thirty years out.
Public education...
@@russellstephan6844 I wrote my final year paper on fusion reactor materials last year. Hopefully I will not be in the comments section in 40 years time writing something similar!
@@russellstephan6844 well, there's no supercomputer simulation back then. also fusion reactor is like the end of the technology tree if it was written like a game. there's so much advance tech required before fusion can be done like high temp superconductor, super strong magnetic chamber, high computing processor, high vacuum chamber, ignition device, etc etc.
atleast now days it mostly solved, but idk about commercialization
@@Nova_501 I hope so too. But, I can also look back on decades of fanciful futuristic predictions and giggle since 90% of them are nothing but pie-in-the-sky daydreaming...
It was a well accepted fact back in the day that we were all going to be in flying cars by y2k.
"Why is it taking so long"
Yeah, sorry we failed your expectations of creating literally a star inside a lab within few minutes.
FYI Fusion power research is going on since the 1940s, so it's already taking over 80 years and there is still no sign we will get more power out of a reactor than is put in (the so-called Qtotal is less than 1).
@@Metal73Mike well, ITER might be this sign, only experimental, but still
@@user-fe4dp6if3b Qtotal for Iter is about 0.57 (440MW put in for the fusion reaction, about 250MW power comes out of the plant), so there is that...
Thats a really expensive oven
Seeing what ASML has done with EUV makes me more optimistic about this.
I want kettles to become a unit of measuring fusion energy, and I will fight anyone who says otherwise.
"Lyons a quality tea "
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@J Silva Why?
I can't actually believe they finally did it... you watch technology evolve from this point on, as soon as they perfect it
They didn't do it, it only lasted 5 seconds and could only generate enough energy to power 30 kettles it costs more energy ingoing than it powers outgoing potential.
@@zenmaster9864 yea for real, their was no “breakthrough” that hasn’t been seen before
@zen master That sounds like it was a failure, but that is far from the truth. It was never intended to produce a lot of sustained energy, but only to prove the concept. It is one incremental step, albeit a big step forward.
@@hgbnkbggj2915 you get it. people are skipping to the big picture without considering the little things along the way. we still have a lot to go with this energy project but its still a small step forward
@@hgbnkbggj2915 and as the joke goes, so it's about 30 years away
“That’s not full auto?”
“This is.”
Mini sun...just like Doc Ock always wanted
Jokes aside, this is good news. I really do hope I'll get to see it be humanity's main power source in my lifetime
There's no chance it will become humanity's main power source in our lifetime, however a more reasonable wish is to see some iteration of an industrial fusion plant actually providing sustainable power
@@masteroogvvay i one hundred percent agree with you, but hopefully we only need to use nuclear fire as long as it takes to get the infrastructure set up for renewables, so as to reduce the amount of waste we have to deal with
I have worked on nuclear fusion for almost twenty years in the past at MIT, PPPL and JET, and was very passionate as those who have made the very kind comments on this post. I also participated in the DT campaigns at both the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) at PPPL and JET with the Collective Thomson Scattering diagnostic. Also congratulations to the JET Team for this accomplishment and all the hard work that went into it.
However, over time, I have decided that DT fusion is not in the best interests for mankind’s future energy and environmental needs, exciting as it is and as I was. What changed my mind was a talk by the ITER engineering team at JET in the late 1990s. They described the plans for the enormous lithium blanket modules that would encompass the ITER vacuum vessel and breed tritium from the energetic neutron fusion products of the DT reaction. It occurred to me that there would be many tons of radioactive waste that would be produced in these lithium blanket modules that would have to be buried along with the vacuum vessel when ITER is retired, due to the energetic neutron radiation activating the structural material. Unfortunately, DT fusion is not as environmentally friendly as I had hoped it would be. It is a good project to train future scientists and engineers, but my hope is that a cleaner aneutronic nuclear fusion fuel would be the mainstream fusion effort in the future. The best fusion fuel that does not have energetic neutrons as a fusion product is proton boron^11, which has three energetic helium^4 particles as fusion products and which may be directly converted into electricity. It is much more difficult to fuse, and probably would need a different type of plasma physics regime to operate with only ions. Bremsstrahlung radiation from the relativistic electrons in a quasi-neutral plasma, such as in a DT fusion plasma, would take away too much input energy in a quasi-neutral proton-boron^11 plasma to achieve net electrical energy out than is needed to run a proton boron^11 fusion reactor with a quasi-neutral plasma. However, if inspired scientists and engineers would take on this nuclear fuel challenge, then we would have a much more environmentally friendly energy future for terrestrial fusion energy. DT fusion might be better suited for extraterrestrial space power applications, where the environment is already very radioactive with cosmic radiation. However, the DT reactors are projecting to be quite large like ITER, which may prove to be impractical for space power applications. I highly recommend that highly motivated scientists and engineers consider developing solutions for proton boron^11 nuclear fusion as an alternative to DT fusion. Thank you.
Thanks John. Way over my head but a good read none the less.
This guy living in 2050
Indeed
Nah.
Stepping stones towards where we should be I guess.
Perhaps there’ll be breakthrough development in radiation shielding long before a refit is required
I bet you didnt know that the advancement curve for fusion has been greater than the advances made in computing power :)
You might also want to check out the companies General Fusion, Helion Energy and TAE Technologies - They have decades of experience with several prototype fusion reactors and are so so close - Wont be long now :)
they should get a deadline of 1 year to finish so they can complete it in 5 years instead of 30 :D
The feats of science and the machines it produces are truly beauties.
lmao nice
"Science"
They are talking like they gonna let the world use it...
For example us iranians made nuclear reactors , and you Europeans and Americans put sanctions on us.
You're just disgusting and you're making science disgusting too
Should throw a bunch of n-words in there