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Bloomberg June 29, 2017 By Jing Cao As a power source, it’s like re-creating the sun on Earth, but the administration wants to reduce its funding. This reactor under construction in the south of France is said to be the first that will yield enough energy to sustain itself (and power about 375,000 homes). Source: … Read more
Royal Society of Biology 28 June 2017 The biggest science policy event in the Parliamentary calendar heard from Jo Johnson MP that the UK Government will continue to underwrite the Joint European Torus (JET) project post Brexit. Jo Johnson MP announces the UK Government will continue to fund JET post-brexit (photo: RSB) The announcement came … Read more
EUactiv Jun 27, 2017 Inside the JET facility. [EUROfusion] The British government said on Tuesday (27 June) it would continue to fund a collaborative nuclear fusion project with the European Union to 2020 if the bloc extends Britain’s contract to host the facility beyond 2018. The Joint European Torus (JET) project, located in southeast England … Read more
Futurism.com June 22, 2017 In Brief Researchers from the Chalmers University of Technology think they’ve developed a method that could eliminate one of remaining obstacles to stable and sustainable nuclear fusion, which could provide the world with a source of virtually limitless clean energy. Taking It Slow Scientists consider nuclear fusion the “holy grail” of … Read more
Newsweek By Hannah Osborne On 6/22/17 The prospect of fusion energy—a potentially limitless and clean source of power—has just edged a little closer. Scientists believe they have solved a fundamental problem with building reactors that produce fusion power. Nuclear fusion produces energy in the same way as the sun and stars, combining lightweight atomic nuclei … Read more
PPPL June 22, 2017 Physicist C.S. Chang A nationwide team of researchers led by physicist C.S. Chang of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has won the use of 269.9 million supercomputer hours to complete an extreme-scale study of the complex edge region of fusion plasmas. The award was made … Read more
Times of India Jun 20, 2017 Padma Shri Prof Predhiman Krishan KawPadma Shri Prof Predhiman Krishan Kaw Highlights Prof Predhiman Krishan Kaw was the founder director of Institute for Plasma Research (IPR), Gandhinagar The institute catapulted India to being one among the seven member entities that is building the world’s largest fusion experiment AHMEDABAD: The … Read more
Phys.org June 21, 2017 Although the vacuum chamber in the British fusion reactor JET has a wall made of solid metal, it can melt if it gets hit by a beam of runaway electrons. It is these runaway elementary particles that doctoral students Linnea Hesslow and Ola Embréus have successfully identified and decelerated. Fusion power … Read more
Europa 31 March 2017 Nuclear fusion could, potentially, solve our energy problems once and for all, but we’re not quite there yet. However, we are already reaping benefits from the research. Technology development for ITER, for example, generates new know-how with possible applications in industry. It has inspired world-leading innovation for a type of analytical … Read more
Fusion for Energy 19 June 2017 The European Commission Vice-President for Energy Union, Maroš Šefcovic, highlighted the importance of fusion during his keynote speech during the plenary ministerial dialogue at the ministerial conference “Meeting the Challenge of Sustainable Energy”. Fusion is the only long-term sustainable base-load energy solution – this message came across during the … Read more