UK science minister Amanda Solloway has officially fired the first “shot” in First Light Fusion’s maiden fusion campaign using its newly completed “Big Gun”.
Big Gun is the UK’s largest two-stage hyper velocity gas gun. It launches projectiles at 6.5 kms per second, 20x the speed of sound
A maiden 21-shot fusion campaign will be part of Oxford-based First Light’s effort to demonstrate fusion using what it says is a unique approach to inertial confinement fusion, which aims to create the extreme temperatures and pressures required for fusion by compressing the fuel inside a target using a projectile travelling at massive speed.
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