Nobel laureate hopes work could pave way to fusion power

Nobel laureate hopes work could pave way to fusion power
Ottawa (AFP) Oct 6, 2015 - Canadian Arthur McDonald, who shared the Nobel Physics Prize with Takaaki Kajita of Japan, said Tuesday he hoped their work on neutrinos could pave the way to nuclear fusion power. Neutrinos are subatomic particles created as the result of nuclear reactions, such as the process that makes the Sun shine. The prevailing theory was long that neutrinos had no mass, but work carried out separ ... more

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