Fusion News

CNIM 4 December 2017 With these new contracts, CNIM reaffirms its expertise in engineering, designing, developing and manufacturing large bespoke instruments for highly demanding environments. The CNIM group has announced the signing of two additional contracts with ITER Organization and Fusion for Energy (F4E), the EU organisation that manages Europe’s contribution to ITER. These contracts … Read more

Materials World Khai Trung Le, 1 Dec 2017 Khai Trung Le talks to researcher Dr Masa Ono about a liquid metal system designed to improve the reliability of fusion power plants. Fusion technology moves closer to readiness with the use of liquid lithium loops to help recycle tritium, the radioactive isotope that fuels fusion reactors, … Read more

Alternative Energy News Danny Ovy on December 1, 2017 ITER worksite in August 2017. Nuclear fusion is considered today the only source of limitless clean power that can solve the energy problem on planet Earth. With the development of the human society, the energy demand increases year after year, and because we mostly rely on … Read more

IOP Published 1 December 2017 • © 2017 IOP Publishing Ltd Conference PDF The 16th International Conference on Plasma-Facing Materials and Components for Fusion Applications (PFMC-16) was held in Düsseldorf/Neuss in Germany in May 2017 and organized by the Institut für Energie und Klimaforschung (IEK) of the Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH. Originating in 1985, as the … Read more

A. Sykes, A.E. Costley, C.G. Windsor, O. Asunta, G. Brittles, P. Buxton, V. Chuyanov, J.W. Connor, M.P. Gryaznevich, B. Huang, J. Hugill, A. Kukushkin, D. Kingham, A.V. Langtry, S. McNamara, J.G. Morgan, P. Noonan, J.S.H. Ross, V. Shevchenko, R. Slade and G. Smith Received 15 December 2016, revised 19 July 2017 Accepted for publication 14 September 2017 Published 29 November 2017 Abstract Tokamak Energy Ltd, UK, is developing spherical tokamaks using high temperature superconductor magnets as … Read more

IPP IPP’s DEMO Studies project treats physical and technological questions that have to be clarified for preparation of a demonstration power plant. The road to a fusion power plant, whether tokamak (blue) or stellarator (green): If DEMO is built as a tokamak involving parallel research in a stellarator with ignited plasma, the first fusion power … Read more

Research in Germany 24 Nov 2017 Source: Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik Investigation of plasmas in astrophysics and fusion research / funding for another two to five years The scientific performance of Max-Planck-Princeton Center for Plasma Physics, established in 2012 by the Max Planck Society and Princeton University, USA, has been evaluated and awarded top grade. The … Read more

ITER 27 NOV, 2017 Nothing gives a better sense of the size of the ITER machine than the ongoing works in the Cryostat Workshop. Breaking coconuts and sharing their flesh before any event of importance, whether a wedding, a journey or a construction project, is an Indian tradition. It is supposed to remove the hurdles … Read more

IAEA NOV 15 2017 Matteo Barbarino, IAEA Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications Miklos Gaspar, IAEA Office of Public Information and Communication Francois Ryter from Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics has won the IAEA’s 2017 Nuclear Fusion Journal Prize for experimental work elucidating a mechanism that can trigger a fusion plasma (see video) … Read more

IPP Czech Academy of Sciences COMPASS-U will be a high magnetic field device with relevant plasma geometries is missing in the European fusion programme (and worldwide after the shut-down of Alcator C-MOD). The purpose of the project is to enlarge the COMPASS operational space, improve its performance and address some of the key gaps in … Read more