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Electricity produced through fusion could be available by 2040 , Oak Ridge theorist says MPEX at Oak Ridge lab to be operational by 2027 .
The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) has been constructed over the past 14 years near Cadarache , France .
The U.S. Department of Energy has committed significant funding to various fusion energy initiatives.
The stellarator (short for stellar generator) is based on an idea conceived in the 1950s at Princeton University in New Jersey .
While fission involves splitting heavy atoms such as uranium, fusion involves combining atoms of light elements.
The required temperature of 100 million degrees , which is higher than that in the sun’s core, creates a plasma.
Some materials will be pre-irradiated with neutrons from ORNL’s High Flux Isotope Reactor to determine if helium is formed that could weaken the material.
Tungsten , carbon-fiber composites, ceramics and advanced materials are being considered because of their potential ability to resist degradation.
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