Fusion News

Futurism by Dom Galeon on December 30, 2017 Not Just More Stable Overcoming a series of setbacks, an international project to build what could be a revolutionary nuclear fusion reactor, which will produce renewable energy, has reached a major milestone. Half of the infrastructure required for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project has now … Read more

NBC by Tom Metcalfe / Dec.29.2017 Some experts think commercial fusion reactors could begin operation as soon as 2030. Construction is underway at the ITER fusion reactor in southern France on Dec. 5, 2017.ITER Organization/EJF Riche Renewable energy sources like solar and wind account for a growing share of the world’s electric power. That’s no … Read more

Journal of Power and Energy Engineering Vol.05 No.12(2017), Article ID:81037,8 pages 10.4236/jpee.2017.512008 By Eugeniy Pavlovich Smirnov Independent Researcher, Moscow, Russia Received: October 19, 2017; Accepted: December 11, 2017; Published: December 14, 2017 Abstract An important task of world energy is to solve the problem of controlled thermonuclear fusion and the information presented in the article … Read more

South China Morning Post 26 December, 2017 Central government backs plan to build world’s first experimental nuclear fusion power station Chinese scientists install an experimental tokamak reactor at a research facility in Hefei, Anhui province, in February 2006. Photo: EPA At least three Chinese cities are vying to host the world’s first experimental nuclear fusion … Read more

PPPL December 21, 2017 Physicist Charles Swanson Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have found a way to prevent plasma — the hot, charged state of matter composed of free electrons and atomic nuclei — from causing short circuits in machines such as spacecraft thrusters, radar amplifiers, and … Read more

WNN 08 December 2017 The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) has welcomed the government’s investment of GBP86 million that will fund the building and operation of a National Fusion Technology Platform (NaFTeP) at Culham Science Centre, which is expected to open in 2020. The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy announced the new funding … Read more

General Fusion 21 Dec 2017 General Fusion achieves first plasma in new machine – a milestone for private fusion venture Vancouver, Canada – Ten times more powerful than its predecessor, the world’s largest and most powerful plasma injector has begun operation at General Fusion’s facilities in Vancouver, Canada. This new machine (PI3) recently generated its … Read more

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine Dec. 21, 2017 WASHINGTON – A decision by the U.S. to withdraw from the ITER project – a large international burning plasma experiment – could isolate scientists from the international effort and require a new domestic approach to study fusion, says a new report by the National Academies of … Read more

AIP By Mitch Ambrose | 9 June 2017 A National Academies panel tasked with developing a multi-decade strategy for magnetically confined burning plasma research held its first meeting on June 5. The head of the Energy Department’s fusion energy sciences program urged the panel to “be bold” in its report, which will consider scenarios in … Read more

Krell Institute Fellow Reflections University of Rochester Collin Stillman configures the target chamber for a plasma experiment at the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics. Image courtesy of Collin Stillman. Collin Stillman creates bits of stars on Earth for his University of Rochester doctoral research. The university houses the Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE), … Read more