A fusion energy gain factor, usually expressed with the symbol Q, is the ratio of fusion power produced in a nuclear fusion reactor to the power required...

Lawson criterion. Ignition can also be defined by the fusion energy gain factor. In the laboratory, fusion ignition defined by the Lawson criterion was first...

nucleus, while releasing energy. Devices designed to harness this energy are known as fusion reactors. Research into fusion reactors began in the 1940s...

ignition. Comparing the driver energy input to the fusion energy output produces a number known as fusion energy gain factor, labelled Q. A Q value of at...

difference of energies of parent and daughter nuclides Q Score, in marketing, a way to measure the familiarity of an item Fusion energy gain factor Q, the ratio...

needed for practical fusion, although not at the same time nor in a single reactor. With the goal of breakeven (a fusion energy gain factor equal to 1) now...

(MJ) from a delivered energy of 2.05 MJ, the first time that any fusion device produced an energy gain factor above one. Fusion reactions combine smaller...

inertial confinement fusion, was designed with a goal of achieving a fusion energy gain factor (Q) of larger than one; the first large-scale laser target experiments...

achieved in June 2024. Energy Singularity already begun planning for a successor, the H170, which aims to achieve a fusion energy gain factor (Q) greater than...

term in economics Breakeven, the point in the fusion energy gain factor where input and output energy is equal "Breakeven" (song), a 2008 song by the...

to build a small fusion power plant based on the ARC tokamak design. It has participated in the United States Department of Energy’s INFUSE public-private...

required to develop a project. In nuclear fusion research, the term break-even refers to a fusion energy gain factor equal to unity; this is also known as...

factor of 10 in what is known as a Z-pinch. The compressed plasma reaches criticality and undergoes fusion reactions. However, the fusion energy gain...

and T). The current record of fusion power generated by MCF devices is held by JET. In 2021, JET sustained a gain factor of Q = 0.33 for 5 seconds and...

in nuclear fusion research. It compares the rate of energy being generated by fusion reactions within the fusion fuel to the rate of energy losses to the...

negative assessment of the field. Calculations demonstrated that a fusion energy gain factor on the order of 125 would be needed for an ICF power plant to...

of 9.2 T. The design point has a fusion energy gain factor Qp ≈ 13.6 (the plasma produces 13 times more fusion energy than is required to heat it), yet...

Aneutronic fusion is any form of fusion power in which very little of the energy released is carried by neutrons. While the lowest-threshold nuclear fusion reactions...

energies of the parent nuclides to the daughter nuclides Q or q, dynamic pressure Max q Q, electric charge q, elementary charge Q, Fusion energy gain...

ZETA, short for Zero Energy Thermonuclear Assembly, was a major experiment in the early history of fusion power research. Based on the pinch plasma confinement...

defined in fusion energy gain factor.) Maintain a fusion pulse for up to 8 minutes. Develop technologies and processes needed for a fusion power station...

In 1998, the modification allowed JT-60U to reach an estimated fusion energy gain factor of QDTeq = 1.25 at 2.6 MA, as discussed above. In December 1998...

cold fusion claims dead, and cold fusion subsequently gained a reputation as pathological science. In 1989 the United States Department of Energy (DOE)...

built with the hope of reaching scientific breakeven where the "fusion energy gain factor" or Q = 1.0. JET achieved its first plasma on 25 June 1983. It...

fusion reactions as it used in powering the heaters and magnets.[citation needed] This represents a fusion energy gain factor (or simply "fusion gain"...

A fusion mechanism is any mechanism by which cell fusion or virus–cell fusion takes place, as well as the machinery that facilitates these processes....

hybrid fusion–fission process can provide a targeted gain of 100 to 300 times the input energy (an increase by a factor of three or four over fusion alone)...

the ongoing KATRIN experiment. Binding energy Calorimeter (particle physics) Decay energy Fusion energy gain factor Pandemonium effect Krane, K. S. (1988)...

to surpass scientific breakeven, achieving an energy gain factor of Q = 1.54, producing more fusion energy than the laser beam delivered to the target....

testing facility in which candidate materials for the use in an energy producing fusion reactor can be fully qualified. IFMIF will be an accelerator-driven...