General Fusion is a Canadian company developing a reactor that uses steam pistons to achieve fusion! And they’re planning on building a fusion demonstration plant by 2025! In this video I explore how fusion works in the sun, how fusion reactors will work on Earth, and how simple steam pistons could be the answer to the technical challenges facing commercial fusion electricity generation.

If you enjoy this video then be sure to watch this one next: https://youtu.be/3u44skO-nMo

You should also check out General Fusion’s YouTube channel for more videos about their reactor and their progress: https://www.youtube.com/c/GeneralFusi…

Footage of General Fusion’s reactor designs is from General Fusion’s YouTube channel.
Footage of the sun is from NASA.
Footage of the Darlington Nuclear Generating Station is from Ontario Power Generation.

SOURCES
How Fusion & Fusion Reactors Work:
https://www.britannica.com/technology…

https://www.energy.gov/science/doe-ex…
https://energyeducation.ca/encycloped…
https://world-nuclear.org/information…
https://www.powermag.com/fusion-energ…
History of Fusion:
https://www.britannica.com/science/nu…
https://www.euro-fusion.org/fusion/hi…
https://www.iter.org/mag/3/29
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/R…
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat…
https://www.britannica.com/biography/…
General Fusion:

Home

https://generalfusion.com/2021/06/gen…
https://world-nuclear-news.org/Articl…
https://generalfusion.com/2021/02/pro…

CHAPTERS
0:00 Introduction
0:30 The Physics of Fusion
3:15 Why Fusion is so Hard
4:29 General Fusion’s Piston Powered Reactor
6:18 Why Fusion?