Foreign media: The United States has made a major breakthrough in nuclear fusion power generation

Fusion energy sounds incredible – zero greenhouse gas emissions, no long-lived radioactive waste, and an almost unlimited energy supply
.
According to foreign media news, a startup company in the United States claims that it has made a major breakthrough
in creating unlimited energy nuclear fusion power generation.

Foreign media: The United States has made a major breakthrough in nuclear fusion power generation

TriAlpha Energy says it has built a machine that allows thermal plasma to remain stable for 5 milliseconds
at temperatures of 10 million degrees Celsius (18 million degrees Fahrenheit).
If true, it proves that fusion power may one day become a reality and the world will no longer rely on fossil fuels
.

It is understood that the principle of nuclear fusion power generation is to place hydrogen atoms under high temperature and pressure until they fuse into helium atoms; Deuterium and tritium nuclei fuse to form a helium nucleus, a neutron and a huge amount of energy, but it takes hydrogen atoms to be heated to 3 billion degrees Celsius for fusion to occur, which is higher
than the sun's surface temperature.
A strong magnetic field is used to keep the plasma away from the outer walls so that the plasma does not cool down and loses its potential energy
.
The plasma is fixed long enough before a nuclear fusion reaction
occurs.
This is a relatively simple concept, but the difficulty lies in heating the gas to such a high temperature
.
Currently, there is no known material that can withstand this high temperature
.