Seattle Business Bill Virgin, April 2018 A Redmond firm believes its compact fusion technology is the right kind of nuclear energy. HOT STUFF: An engineering drawing shows Helion’s truck-size 50-megawatt generator, which produces fusion energy, the same type of energy produced by the sun. As a fuel of the future, nuclear energy isn’t doing too … Read more
Energy Post April 12, 2018 by Scott L Montgomery Construction of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) in southern France Although no breakthrough has happened in nuclear fusion since it was hailed as the clean energy source of the future in the 1970s, there are reasons to be optimistic now, writes Scott L. Montgomery of … Read more
Reuters Giancarlo Navach | April 13, 2018 MILAN (Reuters) – Italian energy group Eni (ENI.MI) is considering stepping up its investment in nuclear fusion, potentially doubling down on a technology considered so uncertain that Eni remains the only global oil company prepared to place a bet on it. Postdoc Ted Golfinopoulos performs maintenance between plasma … Read more
Phys.org March 29, 2018 by John Greenwald, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Five superimposed images of W7-X magnetic surfaces displaced by changes in application of trim coil currents. Credit: Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics A team of U.S. and German scientists has used a system of large magnetic “trim” coils designed and delivered by the … Read more
Phys.org April 11, 2018, University of Huddersfield Scientists at the University of Huddersfield have been using world-class new facilities to carry out experiments that could aid the development of nuclear fusion reactors, widely regarded as the “Holy Grail” solution to future energy needs. By simulating the damage caused by high energy neutrons and alpha particles … Read more
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Robert J. Goldston | 9 April 2018 The 2014 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report included publication on the web of a wide range of scenarios for the future, produced by energy and environment modelers from all over the world. If we select the internationally coordinated set … Read more
MIT Paul Rivenberg | Plasma Science and Fusion Center | April 9, 2018 MIT postdoc Theresa Wilks enjoys time in the DIII-D control room, where she oversees experiments that provide insights about plasma turbulence in fusion tokamaks. Photo: Paul Rivenberg Postdoc Theresa Wilks finds home on the west coast, helming an MIT collaboration with the … Read more
Next Big Future brian wang | April 10, 2018 There have been several articles about Lockheed Martin putting out a patent for its compact nuclear fusion reactor to power aircraft carriers and be moved on trucks or put into airplanes. The last technical updates indicated that the hope for a 20-ton design was out the … Read more
Connectingindustry.com 10 April 2018 – Victoria White For the last 10 years, Third Dimension has been working with the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s (UKAEA) RACE (Remote Applications in Challenging Environments) department to facilitate the development of nuclear fusion by speeding up the MRO (maintenance, repair and overhaul) process of the world’s largest experimental reactor. As … Read more
Eloise Hamann April 7, 2018 In its core, the Sun fuses 620 million metric tons of hydrogen each second. Nuclear fusion is a nuclear reaction in which two atomic nuclei fuse together to form a single nucleus of smaller total mass plus energy (made from the lost mass so to speak.) Aha! Energy, that’s what … Read more