a nuclear reactor in which a thermonuclear fusion reaction takes place
Examples of 'fusion reactor' in a sentence
fusion reactor
He started to try to build a fusion reactor.
Times, Sunday Times (2018)
The size will allow the company to design, build and test the fusion reactor in less than a year.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
You can make your own tritium if your fusion reactor is lined with lithium in a self-sustaining chain reaction.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Most speculatively, we could use the helium-3 known to be locked in there to build a fusion reactor.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
This is the great challenge: at present generating these temperatures is too energy-intensive to make a fusion reactor worthwhile.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Fusion reactors are now in experimental stages at several laboratories around the world.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
So far, nobody has put the required technology into practice, but it is hoped that working nuclear fusion reactors are not that far off.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Artificially generated magnetic fields are already used in experimental fusion reactors to keep superheated plasma from touching its walls, which would otherwise melt.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
And future lasers may play an important role in fusion reactors, allowing us to obtain almost unlimited power by fusing the nuclei of hydrogen atoms.