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New Atlas Rich Haridy | July 25, 2017 Google has been using its machine learning algorithms to help speed up progress in research that looks to produce electricity from nuclear fusion (Credit: Tri Alpha Energy / Erik Lucero) Hot on the heels of last month’s nuclear fusion breakthrough comes the first results from a multi-year … Read more
Quest2017 Luca Comisso. (Photo by Elle Starkman/ PPPL) Researchers at PPPL and Princeton University have proposed a groundbreaking solution to a mystery that has puzzled physicists for decades. At issue is how magnetic reconnection, a universal process that sets off solar flares, northern lights and cosmic gamma-ray bursts, occurs so much faster than theory says … Read more
Eurofusion July 12th 2017 One enormous factory just for magnets: inside the facility on the ITER site. Picture: F4E It is high time for Fusion in Europe to check in on the progress of ITER more regularly. Our series “The ITERsection” explains what makes this tokamak the most complex machine in the world. By reporting … Read more
Xenia Schmalz July 23, 2017 Novi Sad is a 250,000-people city, the second-largest in Serbia. It is located on the side of the Danube river. On the other side of the river, a hill with a castle, and an amazing view of the city during sunset. It has a university with a green campus, located … Read more
Daily Mail 13 July 2017 System can analyze plasma to help design safe reactors that harness the power of stars on Earth Machine learning can be used to spot processes that are causally linked This can help to predict what events cause complications in plasma behaviour Researchers say it could be used to avoid disruptions … Read more
American Security Project Jul 13, 2017 On July 10, 2017, Tri-Alpha Energy (TAE), a nuclear fusion energy start-up based in Foothill Ranch, California, achieved the first plasma in its fifth and newest reactor, Norman. TAE is the world’s largest private fusion company and has worked towards commercial nuclear power for the past 20 years. The … Read more
Eurofusion July 12th 2017 Red marks the spot where the magic happens: JET’s divertor. Picture: EUROfusion One crucial theme of the EUROfusion Roadmap is improving divertor designs in preparation for the demonstration fusion reactor. Divertors, often referred to as the ashtrays of a fusion device, are the components that deal with fusion exhaust products. To … Read more
PPPL Quest 2017 Jonathan Menard, head of NSTX-U Research. (Photo by Elle Starkman/ PPPL) Among the top puzzles in the development of fusion energy is the best shape for the magnetic facility — or “bottle” — that will provide the next steps in the development of fusion reactors. Leading candidates include spherical tokamaks, compact machines … Read more
Guardian 15 July 2017 The Iter nuclear fusion project under construction in the south of France in October last year. Photograph: Iter In the south of France, the largest scientific experiment mankind has ever embarked upon is rising out of the ground. This facility, the Iter project, will demonstrate nuclear fusion power on a commercial … Read more
Visual Capitalist Nick Routley on July 15, 2017 Fusion is the epitome of “high risk, high reward” scientific research. If we were to ever successfully harness the forces that power the stars, mankind could have access to power that is almost literally too cheap to meter. However, reaching that goal will be a very expensive, … Read more