New Delhi/London. According to a big news, now the scientists of Britain have achieved a great success in the direction of making ‘Artificial Sun’. Yes, British scientists have now succeeded in making a great nuclear reactor carrying out nuclear fusion on the technology of the sun, which releases immense energy.
Not only this, during the experiment conducted near Oxford University, 59 megajoules of energy came out from this reactor, which is being seen in the world according to the record itself. To generate this amount of energy, 14 kg of TNT has to be used.
Let us tell you that this magnificent project has been executed by the Joint European Torus in Culham. Now with the help of this technology, the energy of the stars can be harnessed and the way will be cleared to get more cheap and clean energy on the earth. The laboratory has broken its own record set in the year 1997 by generating 59 megajoules of energy. Britain’s Atomic Energy Authority also announced this successful experiment on Wednesday.
Record-breaking 59 megajoules of sustained fusion energy at world-leading UKAEA’s Joint European Torus (JET) facility. Video shows the record pulse in action. Full story https://t.co/iShCGwlV9Y #FusionIsComing #FusionEnergy #STEM #fusion @FusionInCloseUp @iterorg @beisgovuk pic.twitter.com/ancKMaY1V2
— UK Atomic Energy Authority (@UKAEAofficial) February 9, 2022
technology based on nuclear fusion
In this regard, the agency said that the results, which came on December 21, have now demonstrated the capability of safe and sustainable supply of energy based on the technology of nuclear fusion all over the world. Along with this, Britain’s Science Minister George Freeman has also praised this result and called it a milestone.
Let us tell you that in nuclear fusion technology, the same technology is used to generate the heat of the sun. It is also believed that in the future, humanity will get a full, safe and clean energy source for the whole world, which will also get rid of the problem of climate change. The breakthrough comes after years of experimentation in a British laboratory focused on nuclear fusion. In this laboratory, a donut shaped machine called Tokamak has been installed.
10 times hotter than the center of the sun
At the same time, the Tokamak machine installed in the JET laboratory is the largest and most powerful in the world. Very small amounts of deuterium and tritium are filled inside this machine. Both are isotopes of hydrogen and deuterium is also called heavy hydrogen. It was heated 10 times more than the center of the sun so that plasma could also be formed from it. It was first kept in one place using a superconductor electromagnet. Then on its rotation, an immense amount of energy was released. Let us tell the readers that the energy produced by nuclear fusion is safe and it produces 4 million times more energy in one kilogram than the energy produced by coal, oil or gas.