Fusion News

alphr.com 9 Mar 2018 | By Abigail Beall and Victoria Woollaston Nuclear fusion and nuclear energy has the potential to save the world, but also destroy it The global nuclear threat has ramped up in recent months following claims North Korea is building nuclear weapons and president Donald Trump’s threat against the country’s dangerous leader. … Read more

CCFE 05/03/2018 Professor Howard Wilson returned to Culham as Programme Director at the start of October. He spoke to us about what has changed since he worked here previously, and his hopes for research towards the first demonstration fusion reactors. As well as his CCFE role, Howard is Chair at the University of York as … Read more

Washington Post Dino Grandoni | March 7, 2018 Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), the retiring chair of the House Science Committee, has rarely been in agreement with Democrats. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) The House Science, Space and Technology Committee is known for its partisan bickering. Under Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Tex.), Republicans opened probes into … Read more

Reuters March 6, 2018 FILE PHOTO – A man walks past a block of stone with the name of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) organization headquarters in Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, Southern France, October 6, 2016. REUTERS/Jean-Paul Pelissier Bernard Bigot, director-general of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor project, or ITER, said the administration’s budget cuts would reduce … Read more

CCFE Nuclear fusion is one of the most promising options for generating large amounts of carbon-free energy in the future. Illustration of the fusion reaction Fusion is the process that heats the Sun and all other stars, where atomic nuclei collide together and release energy (in the form of neutrons, see diagram on the right). … Read more

Science Daily Date: March 2, 2018 Source: Aalto University Summary: Scientists have created, for the first time a three-dimensional skyrmion in a quantum gas. The skyrmion was predicted theoretically over 40 years ago, but only now has it been observed experimentally. This knotted skyrmion may provide insight into a stable ball of plasma that could … Read more

Geek Wire by Alan Boyle on February 14, 2018 The promise of natural gas, shale oil, renewable energy and conventional nuclear power all pale in comparison to the promise of clean, potentially abundant fusion power — and that’s attracting increasing attention from science-savvy entrepreneurs. General Fusion says it has the world’s largest and most powerful … Read more

Space Daily Feb 26, 2018 Interaction of laser light and plasma. (a) Reflection of light. (b) Conventional understanding of the hole boring by intense light. (c) and (d) New concept: the stopping condition of the hole boring sustained by the plasma surface tension. The interaction of high-power laser light sources with matter has given rise … Read more

Fuse.net The Summer University for Plasma Physics and Fusion Research organised by the Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics will be organised between 17th and 21st September in Greifswald, Germany.The lectures are designed for physics and engineering students of European universities who passed their bachelor (undergraduate) courses and not yet started nor decided their PhD project. … Read more

CCFE 27/02/2018 CCFE’s fusion power plant studies are set to benefit from an upgrade to key software code PROCESS. The project to modernise PROCESS is driving greater partnership with fusion researchers abroad as well as making it easier to navigate for key users. Culham researchers use the code to answer complex questions about the design … Read more