Fusion News

General Fusion’s scientists working with Microsoft’s software experts to explore experimental plasma data in greater depth than previously possible VANCOUVER, BC–(Marketwired – May 15, 2017) – General Fusion, an industry leading clean energy company, is partnering with Microsoft’s Developer Experience Team to unlock critical insights into its experimental results using cloud-based big data techniques. These … Read more

Phys.org May 10, 2017 by Raphael Rosen Physicists Steve Sabbagh and Jack Berkery in front of the National Spherical Torus Experiment-Upgrade (NSTX-U) Credit: Elle Starkman Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have helped develop a new computer model of plasma stability in doughnut-shaped fusion machines known as tokamaks. … Read more

Adelaide Review MAY 2, 2017by DR JESSICA L. PATERSON Renewable energies are “old hat already” says Dr Jessica L. Paterson, and our energy future is bright thanks to the potentially limitless power supply that fusion reactors could bring us. You may have recently watched Jay Weatherill throw down with Federal Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg over … Read more

STRN April 28, 2017 Heating the core of fusion reactors causes them to develop sheared rotation that can improve plasma performance. Simulation of plasma turbulence generating positive (red) and negative (blue) residual stress that drives rotation shear. Comparison between measured and simulated rotation profile (inset). Image courtesy of W.X. Wang The Science Improved stability and … Read more

WNN 28 April 2017 The UK’s newest fusion reactor has been turned on for the first time and has officially achieved first plasma. The reactor aims to produce a record-breaking plasma temperature of 100 million degrees for a privately-funded venture. This is seven times hotter than the centre of the Sun and the temperature necessary … Read more

Business Korea SEOUL,KOREA 25 April 2017 Cho Jin-young The South Korean government has set up and implemented its five-year plans in order to be capable of building nuclear fusion power plants by 2041. On April 21, the Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning of South Korea released its third five-year plan for the development … Read more

Oxford Times April 21, 2017 UK Atomic Energy Authority scientists working on the MAST Upgrade Tokamak fusion reactor at Culham Centre for Fusion Energy. A GROUNDBREAKING project to create clean energy from seawater has been given a major boost at a time of great uncertainty in the form of £21m funding. Culham Centre for Fusion … Read more

Die Welt 10.04.2017 The experimental reactor Iter is intended to solve mankind’s energy problems. According to Director General Bernard Bigot more and more countries want to join. But they all share one concern. Nuclear fusion reactors could solve mankind’s energy problems as it is clean and safe. Yet the big problem is that so far … Read more

WNN 19 April 2017 The UK’s MAST Upgrade tokamak is to receive £21 million ($27 million) in funding to upgrade its plasma exhaust systems. The upgrades will allow fusion researchers to improve their understanding of plasma exhaust physics. MAST Upgrade (Image: UKAEA) The controlled exhaust of power and particles from a hot fusion plasma, through … Read more

WNN 18 April 2017 Tokamak Energy has highlighted the contribution fusion energy can make to the UK’s new industrial strategy and how government policy can support its rapid development and large-scale commercial deployment. In an ‘open letter’ sent to World Nuclear News, Tokamak Energy’s chief executive, David Kingham, outlined his response to the government’s Building … Read more