May 10, 2010 by David L. Chandler
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Exterior
view of the Ignitor fusion reactor, whose core will be built in Italy
and external housing built outside Moscow, where it will be installed.
Image courtesy of Bruno Coppi
Russia
and Italy have entered into an agreement to build a new fusion reactor
outside Moscow that could become the first such reactor to achieve
ignition, the point where a fusion reaction becomes self-sustaining
instead of requiring a constant input of energy. The design for the
reactor, called...
