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' largest' fusion fuel facility to be built

by neversaydie on 3/10/25, 11:50 AM with 11 comments

• by perihelions on 3/13/25, 4:46 PM

  That's some lazy journalism; they've omitted the name of the object they're writing about. So people could search for that name, you know?

  The name of this fusion project is "H3AT",

  https://ccfe.ukaea.uk/eni-and-ukaea-to-build-the-worlds-larg... ("...UKAEA-Eni H3AT (pronounced ‘heat’) Tritium Loop Facility...")

  Here's slightly more information about it (maybe there's a better source)?

  (.pdf) https://nucleus.iaea.org/sites/fusionportal/Shared%20Documen...

• by loeg on 3/13/25, 4:51 PM

  It's 'World's largest', but HN ate the headline.

• by jszymborski on 3/13/25, 6:08 PM

  Wouldn't just building a CANDU reactor be more effective? They produce both power and tritium.

• by nemo136 on 3/13/25, 4:42 PM

  Looking at the fact there are currently no active electricity generating fusion power plants, and we do not know which technology will "win", how likely is this a waste of money ? Or am I missing a point ?