Fusion News

The Register 6 Jul 2017 The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak Chinese boffins say they have smashed yet another world fusion record using their EAST contraption – aka the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak. The experimental fusion system managed to maintain a stable plasma state for 101.2 seconds, with the temperature peaking at 50,000,000 K (90,000,000°F, 50,000,000°C), … Read more

Phys.org July 5, 2017 Physicist Dennis Boyle. Credit: Elle Starkman/PPPL Office of Communications Two major issues confronting magnetic-confinement fusion energy are enabling the walls of devices that house fusion reactions to survive bombardment by energetic particles, and improving confinement of the plasma required for the reactions. At the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma … Read more

Eureka Alert 5-Jul-2017 Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters Basic parameters of the world’s longest 101.2 s high confinement discharge achieved on EAST (Bt=2.5T, PRF=3.0MW, ne/neGW=0.55, Te=4.0KeV, H98y2=1.1, Upper single null configuration) Image by the EAST Team China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) made an important advance by achieving a stable 101.2-second steady-state high confinement plasma, … Read more

News4c.com By Daniel Knighten -July 3, 2017 Earl Marmar, director of the Alcator C-Mod Tokamak project of the US Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says that from 2030 we will have nuclear fusion energy. The nuclear fusion will change the energy industry on the ground, being the only true source of renewable and environmentally friendly energy. … Read more

Futurism June 29, 2017 In Brief Earl Marmar, MIT’s Alcator C-Mod tokamak fusion project, said that we could potentially have nuclear fusion powering electric grids by the 2030s — that is, if we continue to pursue research aggressively. Fusion on the Horizon In the continuous pursuit of a truly renewable and clean energy source, nothing … Read more

Econotimes June 30, 2017 Nuclear Fusion Reactor.Steve Jurvetson/Flickr Since being sworn into office, President Donald Trump has done everything in his power to undermine the progress of renewable energy. He backed out of the Paris Accord and is giving the fossil fuel industry preferential treatment. However, the current administration is proposing a budget cut that … Read more

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