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| Lockheed Martin Claims Nuclear |
| Lockheed Martin Claims Nuclear Energy Breakthrough
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 16-October-2014
10:45:55 AM |
| Lockheed Martin Corp says it has made a technological breakthrough in developing a power source based on nuclear fusion, with reactors small enough to fit on the back of a truck.
The aerospace and security firm, which made the announcement on Wednesday, says it expects its first operational reactor to be ready in as little as 10 years.
And thanks to the reactor's smaller size, the company based just outside Washington in Bethesda, Maryland, said it can design, build and test the new compact fusion reactor in less than a year.
After completing several of these cycles, Lockheed's team said it plans on being able to produce a prototype in five years.
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"Our compact fusion concept combines several alternative magnetic confinement approaches, taking the best parts of each, and offers a 90 percent size reduction over previous concepts," said Tom McGuire, compact fusion lead for the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works' Revolutionary Technology Programs.
The Skunk Works team also plans to search for partners to help further the technology.
Roger Dargaville, a research fellow and leader of the MEI Energy Futures Group at the University of Melbourne, Australia, stressed that nuclear energy will be an important part of power generation in countries where other low carbon alternatives are not viable.
"The potential for the use of fusion reactors over fission is exciting news as the dangerous by-products of fission reactors are a major disadvantage of the technology," said Dargaville
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