The US Department of Energy has announced $29m in funding for 14 projects as part of a project that aims to focus on the materials and technologies that will be needed to establish fusion energy’s technical and commercial viability once net energy gain is achieved.
The DOE said project teams will work to close technological gaps that will be needed to connect a net-energy-gain “fusion core," once it is ready, to a deployable, commercially attractive fusion system.
Net energy gain is the need to produce more energy going out of the reaction than went into it.
The DOE said project teams will work to close technological gaps that will be needed to connect a net-energy-gain “fusion core," once it is ready, to a deployable, commercially attractive fusion system.
Net energy gain is the need to produce more energy going out of the reaction than went into it.
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