Fusion News

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

Oakridge October 16, 2017 The interior of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT’s) Alcator C-Mod tokamak. A team led by Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory’s C.S. Chang recently used the Titan supercomputer to simulate C-Mod in the first computational demonstration of a spontaneous transition of a tokamak plasma into high-confinement mode, a mode that will be … Read more

Canada Weekly November 24, 2017 The world’s most powerful laser system at the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore Labs can deliver an ultrashort laser pulse, 5×10^-11 seconds long, which delivers more than 500 trillion watts (terawatts or TW) of peak power and 1.85 megajoules (MJ) of ultraviolet laser light to its target. In context, … Read more

Global University Venturing 20 November 2017 Author: Callum Cyrus, reporter Oxford Sciences Innovation has taken Parkwalk Advisors’ stake in nuclear fusion spinout First Light Fusion. Oxford Sciences Innovation (OSI), University of Oxford’s venture fund, bought a stake on Friday in First Light Fusion, a UK-based nuclear fusion research spinout from Oxford and University College London … Read more

PPPL November 21, 2017 PPPL physicist Lan Gao performing the final check for crystal positioning and alignment before the instrument was shipped to NIF (Photo by Elle Starkman) The three spectrometer channels inside the instrument (Photo by Elle Starkman) A cross section of the instrument showing three crystal spectrometers Scientists from the U.S. Department of … Read more