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MIT June 23, 2017 “We now strongly believe that these magnetic fields critically affect structure formation in the universe — they are critical to shaping the world as we see it,” says Associate Professor Nuno Loureiro. Photo: Susan Young Nuclear Science and Engineering Associate Professor Nuno Loureiro ponders the origins of magnetic fields. Nuclear Science … Read more
Silicon Republic by Colm Gorey | July 13, 2017 Illustration of a nuclear chain reaction. Image: GiroScience/Shutterstock The race to create the first sustainable ‘artificial sun’ is hotting up, with China’s top nuclear fusion scientist promising to have it within 50 years. Nuclear fusion could usher in a new age of technology, as a source … Read more
Euro Fusion July 12th 2017 The inside of the stellarator Wendelstein 7-X clearly shows the reddish tiles made of copper-chromium-zirconium. Pictures: IPP The stellarator Wendelstein 7-X has received its first divertor. Just one step closer towards realising plasma pulse lengths of half an hour without breaking the machine Fusion is different. Even when it comes … Read more
The Chemical Engineer Neil Clark | 12/07/2017 NUCLEAR fusion in Europe from the DEMO demonstration plant could be pushed back beyond 2054, according to the BBC. The broadcaster gained the information from a new version of a European “road map” prior to its official release, which lays out the technological hurdles that must be overcome … Read more
NIFS National Institute for Fusion Science (Japan) Establishes International Academic Cooperation Agreement with Southwest Jiaotong University in the People’s Republic of China – Towards the First Helical Plasma Research in the People’s Republic of China National Institutes of Natural Sciences National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS) and Southwest Jiaotong University, in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, … Read more
American Security Project Jun 27, 2017 By: Derek A. Sutherland There is an ever-increasing demand for consumable energy worldwide. The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) in the 2016 International Energy Outlook (IEO) report projects worldwide energy demand increasing into the mid-21st century. Worldwide energy consumption was dominated by countries within the Organization for Economic Co-operation … Read more
GTM by Katie Fehrenbacher | July 10, 2017 But it’s just one step in a very long process. Tri Alpha Energy, a company with $500 million in backing that has been working on nuclear fusion technology for nearly two decades, reached a major milestone last month. On Monday, the company announced that it started up … Read more
news.com.au July 10, 2017 THE world is racing to harness the power of the universe’s “perfect energy source”. And Australia is playing a key role in this new frontier. The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor being built in France. AS THE world tries to wean itself off fossil fuels, scientists are racing towards one of the … Read more
Oxfordshire Guardian George Welchon: July 07, 2017 Left to right, Lorne Horton, head of the JET exploitation unit, Layla Moran, Oxford West and Abingdon MP, Ian Chapman, CEO UK Atomic Energy Authority An Oxfordshire MP has described a government pledge to keep funding a multi-million pound nuclear fusion project in Culham, as long as the … Read more
Wonderful Engineering by Umer Sohail July 2, 2017 We might be on the brink of achieving unlimited clean energy forever! The nuclear fusion reaction fired up by the Germans last year has been recently analyzed for performance assessment by a team of researchers from the US Department of Energy and the Max Planck Institute of … Read more