For decades Russia has devoted considerable resources to develop a light compact propulsion as well as power system for future space ships. Over the years Russia has developed a number of different ...

Electric-power production is a conservative business; it makes electricity just as it did more than a century ago—by driving copper wires through magnetic fields. That is all that happens in the huge, ...

The possibility of generating useful amounts of electricity by blowing hot gas between the poles of a magnet has long intrigued adventurous physicists. Many have tried to turn the trick, but until Dr.

Prospects for a low specific mass multi-megawatt nuclear space power plant were examined assuming closed cycle coupling of a high-temperature fission reactor with magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) energy ...

ARLINGTON, Va., Aug. 17, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Carl Weggel—a 50-year persistent advocate of the compact, ultra-high-field tokamak—is on a mission to commercialize fusion energy through Kronos's ...

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Current Science is a fortnightly journal published since 1932 by the Current Science Association, Bangalore (India) in collaboration with the Indian Academy of Sciences. The journal covers all ...