{"id":2490,"date":"2013-05-25T05:53:29","date_gmt":"2013-05-25T05:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2490"},"modified":"2013-05-25T05:53:29","modified_gmt":"2013-05-25T05:53:29","slug":"sci-tech-review-of-alternative-nuclear-fusion-power-approaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2490","title":{"rendered":"Sci-Tech: Review of alternative nuclear fusion power approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brian Wang reviews the status of several innovative fusion power projects: Nuclear Fusion Summary – Prospects for breakthrough commercial reactors 2018-2025 -NextBigFuture<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brian Wang reviews the status of several innovative fusion power projects: Nuclear Fusion Summary – Prospects for breakthrough commercial reactors 2018-2025 -NextBigFuture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-Ea","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9072,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9072","url_meta":{"origin":2490,"position":0},"title":"Sci-Tech: More fusion power projects","author":"TopSpacer","date":"October 20, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I recently listed some relatively low cost, near(er) term nuclear fusion power projects, \u00a0most of which originated at government labs or from government funded research at universities but are now being pursued by private ventures: Updates on five fusion power projects\u00a0- Dynomak, Helion Power, EMC2 Polywell,\u00a0Lockheed-Martin Compact Fusion, and Sandia's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Science and Technology"","block_context":{"text":"Science and Technology","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=9"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5159,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5159","url_meta":{"origin":2490,"position":1},"title":"Sci-Tech: Nuclear fusion projects including General Fusion, Helion Energy and MSNW","author":"TopSpacer","date":"November 2, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's an overview of several fusion power projects:\u00a0The Nuclear Fusion Arms Race Is Underway - \u00a0Motherboard. 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