Running out of fuel for fusion, and addressing gender-based violence in India

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🗓️ 7 July 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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On this week’s show: A shortage of tritium fuel may leave fusion energy with an empty tank, and an attempt to improve police responsiveness to violence against women First up this week on the podcast, Staff Writer Daniel Clery talks with host Sarah Crespi about a new hurdle for fusion: not enough fuel. After decades of delays, scientists are almost ready to turn on the first fusion reactor that makes more energy than it uses, but the fast-decaying fuel needed to run the reactor is running out. Also this week, we highlight an intervention aimed at increasing police responsiveness to gender-based violence in India. Sandip Sukhtankar, an economist at the University of Virginia, talks about creating dedicated spaces for women in local police stations, staffed by trained officers. The presence of these “help desks”—when staffed by women officers—increased the recording by police of crimes against women, opening up access to social services and possibly a path to justice. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. [Image: DAVID PARKER/SCIENCE SOURCE; Music: Jeffrey Cook] [alt: The interior of the ITER fusion megareactor (artist’s concept) with podcast overlay] Authors: Sarah Crespi; Daniel Clery Episode page: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.add8229 About the Science Podcast: https://www.science.org/content/page/about-science-podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:22.1	This is a science podcast for July 8, 2022. I'm Sarah Crespi.
1:28.3	Each week we talk about the most interesting news and research
1:32.3	from science and the sister journals.
1:35.3	First up staff news writer Daniel Clary.
1:38.3	We discussed the future of fusion energy.
1:41.3	Just as scientists get ready to turn on the first fusion reactor that makes more power than
1:48.5	it uses, it looks like we might be running out of the fuel needed to run it.
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