Earlier this year it was announced the world's most powerful magnet was being shipped to Cadarache, France, to install at the ITER reactor.<\/p>\n
With a magnetic field peaking at 13 Tesla, the magnet will be about 280,000 times more powerful than our planet's magnetic field.<\/p>\n
But according to Massachusetts scientists, their magnet promises to generate a field that could be twice as powerful as ITER's and that could be good news for Britain's energy ambitions.<\/p>\n
Bob Mumgard, a plasma physicist at Commonwealth Fusion Systems, told The New York Times: \"If you go to a much higher magnetic field, you can go to a much smaller size.\"<\/p>\n
The company's proposed reactor could, in theory, be about one-fiftieth the size of the reactor being built in France, while generating as much power.<\/p>\n
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