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PPPL March 29, 2018 (Photo by Elle Starkman/Office of Communications) Physicist Samuel Lazerson at PPPL. A team of U.S. and German scientists has used a system of large magnetic “trim” coils designed and delivered by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) to achieve high performance in the latest round of … Read more
New Energy Times By Steven B. Krivit — March 28, 2018 At 10 a.m. on March 6, the House Subcommittee on Energy convened a hearing on the future of U.S. fusion energy research. After the witnesses spoke, Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) questioned them. He asked James W. Van Dam, the acting associate director of the Department … Read more
ITER 26 Mar, 2018 A double pancake for poloidal field coil #6 (PF6) undergoes impregnation at the Institute of Plasma Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ASIPP) in Hefei, China. At the Institute of Plasma Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ASIPP) in Hefei, China, an 80-person team is involved in the fabrication … Read more
Differ News March 27th 2018 On Wednesday 21 March, the research facility Magnum-PSI at DIFFER (Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research) set a new world record for longest exposure of a material to the harsh plasma conditions in future fusion reactors. Magnum-PSI exposed tungsten wall components to the equivalent of a full year of high … Read more
San Diego Union Tribune Rob Nikolewski | March 27, 2018 One of seven Central Solenoid modules being built by General Atomics as part of the ITER fusion energy project. Seven segments are spliced together to make a continuous coil. At this stage, the coil weighs 225,000 pounds. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / San Diego Union-Tribune) After … Read more
NextBigFuture brian wang | March 27, 2018 LPP Fusion has raised over $640,000 in its latest crowdfunding round. LPP fusion is preparing for beryllium electrode experiments for its attempt to prove out their dense plasma focus fusion designs. LPP fusion wants to build small, decentralized 5 Megawatt nuclear fusion generators that will use hydrogen and … Read more
Reuters Geert De Clercq | March 26, 2018 PARIS (Reuters) – The United States has agreed to double its planned 2018 budget contribution to the ITER project to build a prototype nuclear fusion reactor, avoiding delays to the international project this year, its director said on Monday. FILE PHOTO – A crane loads equipments at … Read more
WNN 15 March 2018 First Light Fusion (FLF) is investing GBP3.6 million (USD5.0 million) building what it says will be the only pulsed power machine of its scale in the world dedicated to researching fusion energy. The Oxford, England-based company said on 12 March it expects to commission the device – Machine 3 – by … Read more
CCFE 22/03/2018 HRH The Duke of York visited CCFE yesterday to see at first hand its pioneering work on fusion energy. Culham is home to JET – the Joint European Torus – the world’s largest fusion experiment, which CCFE operates for scientists around Europe. The Duke of York toured JET and learned of its role … Read more
Greenbiz Katie Fehrenbacher | March 12, 2018 TAE Technologies’ nuclear fusion reactor technology. Technology developed to try to crack the code of nuclear fusion — that elusive type of nuclear energy that powers the sun — is now being repurposed to kill cancer. The unusual move comes from TAE Technologies, a company that has been … Read more