reactor
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But, despite extensions to the plant's life, the second reactor was shut down in 2012.
From BBC
These reactors—being built by Westinghouse, Babcock & Wilcox and others—are awaiting certification by various regulators for use in commercial shipping, among other industries.
But in practice, the plasma in a commercial reactor would need to multiply energy between 20 and 60 times, a threshold no system has approached.
TOKYO—On a sandy coastline 180 miles from Tokyo, a giant nuclear reactor will soon come back to life after more than a decade offline.
A University of Cincinnati physicist and an international team of collaborators say they have worked out a theoretical method for producing axions inside fusion reactors.
From Science Daily
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