Pulsar Fusion specialises in developing #NuclearFusion technology for use as propulsion. In this video, one can see footage from inside the vacuum chamber taken of a modified Ion Thruster developed by Pulsar for research into possible fusion engine designs. Whilst governments plan to demonstrate the world’s first nuclear fusion reactor (ITER) in 2025, Pulsar Fusion, a nimble start up in the UK, aims to have demonstrated nuclear fusion rocket engines in space before fusion technology is harnessed for grid power supply on Earth.
Fusion rocket engines are useful technology using nuclear fusion technology today, whilst fusion for energy may still be several decades away due extensive additional technological requirements and the multi-national and typically highly bureaucratic power station timescales.
Fusion rockets do not require large steam turbines and much of the expensive equipment necessary for a power station build project that can take many years to finance and construct.
However, by 2100, world governments predict nuclear fusion will be the dominant power supply of our planet, replacing nuclear fission.
Nuclear Fusion rocket technology has the ability to half mission times to Mars and could open up the possibility of visiting planets outside of our solar system.
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